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Finola Moorhead (born 1947) is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and reviewer. Her topics include women and writing, switching between reality and fiction, with themes of subversion and survival. Moorhead participates in the women's liberation movement, and during the 1980s, she was a Radical feminism. As a result of a challenge she wrote a book without male characters.
Moorhead has supported the women's liberation movement since the 1970s, and during the 1980s, she identified with radical feminism.
Among her other works are the novels A Handwritten Modern Classic (1985), Quilt (1985), Still Murder (1991/2002), Darkness More Visible (2000) and the poetry collection My Voice (2006), and the plays Curtain Raiser, Horses and It Might As Well Be Loneliness. Remember the Tarantella has been described as dealing with loss and grief. She sent her first story and play off to The Herald Short Story Competition and The Australian National Playwright's Conference Competition, winning first prize for both. She was also a Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction laureate in 1991.
Writings
She was a contemporary of the writer Christina Stead, who challenged Moorhead to write a book without male characters. As a result, Moorhead wrote her 1987 book Remember the Tarantella. The lesbian fictional novel has a lead character whose name begins with "I" and the other 25 female characters' names begin with a different letter of the alphabet.
Selected works
Categories: Australian Women Dramatists And Playwrights, Australian Women Poets, Australian Essayists, Australian Women Essayists, 1947 Births, Living People, Writers From Victoria, 20th-century Australian Dramatists And Playwrights, 21st-century Australian Dramatists And Playwrights, 20th-century Australian Novelists, 21st-century Australian Novelists, 20th-century Australian Poets, 21st-century Australian Poets, 21st-century Australian Women Novelists, 20th-century Australian Women Novelists
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