Frank Moorhouse, Australian author and essayist, dies aged 83

Frank Moorhouse in 2004. The novelist has died at the age of 83 in Sydney. Photograph: Getty Images

Frank Moorhouse, the celebrated Australian author and essayist best known for the Edith trilogy, has died at the age of 83.

His publisher, Penguin Random House, confirmed on Sunday that he had died that morning at a hospital in Sydney.