Environment Award 1999 WAYRBA Hoffman Award for Young Readers, Lockie Leonard, Legend 1998 Family Award for Children's Literature,Dirt Music 2001 Western Australian Premier's Book Award Premier's Prize - Book of Year 2001 Western Australian Premier's Book Award Premier's Prize - Fiction 2001 Good Reading Award, 2001 2002 Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist) 2002 Miles Franklin Award 2002 New South Wales Premier's Literary Award, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2002 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Fiction, 2002 – shortlistThe Turning 2004 Colin Roderick Award, 2004 – joint winner 2005 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Best Fiction Book 2005 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2005 Inaugural Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award – shortlisted 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book – commended, Breath 2008 Age Book of the Year, Fiction – winner 2008 Indie Awards – Fiction 2009 Miles Franklin Award 2009 Shortlisted Commonwealth Writers' Prize, South East Asia and the South Pacific Region 2009 Shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead PrizeEyrie 2014 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards – Fiction Book Award 2014 shortlisted Voss Literary Prize 2014 winner Western Australian Premier's Book Awards – People's Choice Award 2014 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards – Fiction 2014 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) – Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2014 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award 2014 shortlisted Indie Awards – Fiction 2014 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards – Fiction Island Home : A Landscape Memoir 2015 highly commended The Fellowship of Australian Writers Victoria Inc. National Literary Awards – FAW Excellence in Non-fiction Award I 2015 shortlisted Colin Roderick Award 2016 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards —Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction 2016 winner Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) – Australian General Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2016 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards – Non-Fiction 2016 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards – Non-Fiction Book AwardThe Boy Behind the Curtain 2017 longlisted Indie Awards – NonfictionThe Shepherd's Hut''''' 2019 winner Voss Literary Prize 2019 shortlisted NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction References External links 1960 births 20th-century Australian male writers 20th-century Australian non-fiction writers 20th-century Australian novelists 20th-century Australian short story writers 20th-century essayists 21st-century Australian dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Australian male writers 21st-century Australian non-fiction writers 21st-century Australian novelists 21st-century Australian short