'The Night We Ate the Sparrow : A Memoir and Fourteen Stories' 1986 winner of the inaugural Young Australian's Best Book Award for 'The 27th Annual Hippopotamus Race' 1988 – NBC Banjo Awards: second for 'Whole Life : An Autobiography' 1991 – KOALA, Primary Readers: winner for 'The Twenty-Seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race ' 1994 – Island-North Essay Competition: runner-up for The Fat Kid's Revenge 1994 – Ulitarra-Sheaffer Pen Short Story Competition: winner for 'Towards a New Definition of Radical Feminism' 2006 – Patrick White Award for under-recognised, lifetime achievement in literature Works Novels and short story collections Rappaport (Hodder and Stoughton, 1966) The London Jungle Adventures of Charlie Hope (Hodder and Stoughton, 1968) Happy Times (Hodder and Stoughton, 1969) Rappaport's Revenge (Angus & Robertson, 1973) Home is (1974) Inside the Wardrobe (Outback Press, 1975) Flying Home (Outback Press, 1978) Running Nicely (Thomas Nelson, 1979) Dirty Friends (Penguin Books, 1981) Seven Books for Grossman (Penguin Books, 1983) Outrageous Behaviour (a collection of best stories, Penguin Books, 1984) The Night We Ate the Sparrow (McPhee Gribble, 1985) Two Brothers, Running (Penguin Books, 1990) Madness (Angus & Robertson, 1991) The String (McPhee Gribble, 1995) Welcome to Tangier (Penguin Books, 1997) The Secret Strength of Children (Bruce Sims Books, 2001) Seventeen Versions of Jewishness: Twenty Examples (Common Ground, 2001) To Light Attained (Hybrid Publishers, 2008) Hergesheimer Hangs In (Arcadia/Australian Scholarly, 2011) Hergesheimer in the Present Tense (Hybrid Publishers, 2014) My Greatest Ambition (1984) Essays and journalismThe English in Heat (Angus & Robertson, 1972)Hack Work (Outback Press, 1977)Public Secrets (1981)Snow Jobs (1985)My Life as a Movie (1988) Other books include a collection of plays called Waterman (1979); an autobiography Whole Life (1987); and a number of children's books, including the popular Twenty-Seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race'' (1969), which schoolchildren in Victoria voted their favourite young storybook by an Australian author. References 1938 births 2014 deaths 20th-century Australian novelists 21st-century Australian novelists Australian children's writers Australian male novelists Australian male short story writers Australian people of Polish-Jewish descent Australian memoirists Jewish Australian writers RMIT University alumni Writers from Melbourne Patrick White Award winners Deaths from cancer in Victoria (Australia) 20th-century Australian short story writers 21st-century Australian short story writers 20th-century Australian male writers 21st-century Australian male writers People educated at Melbourne High School