1991: NBC Banjo Awards, NBC Turnbull Fox Phillips Poetry Prize, shortlisted for This Goes with That 1998: ABC / ABA Bicentennial Literary Award, Poetry Australia Literary Award 2002: Robert Helpmann Award for Best Opera and Best New Australian Work for Batavia 2002: Green Room Award for Special Creative Achievement for Batavia 2003: Colin Roderick Award, shortlisted for Three Dog Night 2004: Miles Franklin Award. Shortlisted for Three Dog Night 2004: FAW Christina Stead Award for Three Dog Night 2004: The Courier-Mail Book of the Year. Shortlisted for Three Dog Night 2004: Queensland Premier's Literary Awards. Shortlisted for Three Dog Night 2004: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. Shortlisted for Three Dog Night 2005: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, longlisted for Three Dog Night 2009: Prime Minister's Literary Awards. Shortlisted for Everything I Knew 2010: Member of the Order of Australia. (AM) Citation: "For service to literature as an author and poet, through arts administration, and to the community." Bibliography Novels Maestro (1989) Magpie (1992) Honk If You are Jesus (1992) Wish (1995) Keep it Simple, Stupid (1996) Three Dog Night (2003) Everything I Knew (2008) The Kiss (2012) Minotaur (2019) Poetry collections Readings from Ecclesiastes (1982) This Goes with That: Selected Poems 1970–1990 (1991) After the Ball (1992) If, Then: Poems and Songs (1996) New Selected Poems (2001) Tattered Joys (2002) The Rise of the Machines and other Love Poems (2015) Anatomy of a Metaphor (2017) Short story collections Archipelagoes (1982) Zooing (1986) Bleak Rooms (1988) Little Deaths (1993) One of My Best Friends (1994) Navel Gazing: Essays, Half Truths and Mystery Flights (1998) The List of All Answers (2004) Gravel (2010) Novella Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam (1993) Non-fiction His Stupid Boyhood: A Memoir (2013) Navel Gazing (Essays, 1996) Critical studies and reviews References Australia Council Peter Goldsworthy Accessed: 9 February 2008 Goldsworthy, Peter (2003) Three Dog Night, Penguin Books (Brief bio) External links 1951 births Living people 20th-century Australian novelists 20th-century Australian male writers 21st-century Australian novelists Australian male novelists Australian poets Australian male short story writers Australian opera librettists Australian psychiatrists Helpmann Award winners Writers from South Australia Australian male poets Australian male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Australian short story writers 21st-century Australian short story writers 20th-century Australian dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Australian dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Australian male writers Members of the Order of Australia