that of: belonging to family; belonging to a place; belonging to a culture; and the effect of mental illness. Awards and recognition The book was the recipient of the 1998 Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction. It was chosen to be placed on both the Victorian Certificate of Education and New South Wales Higher School Certificate English reading lists, and was examined in both final English exams. Adaptions A film adaptation, Romulus, My Father, was released in 2007, starring Eric Bana, Franka Potente and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Further reading "Multicultural Texts in the 1990s" in Un-Australian Fictions: Nation, Multiculture(alism) and Globalisation, 1988-2008 References External links Library holdings of Romulus, My Father Australian autobiographies 1998 non-fiction books Non-fiction books about immigration