Screenplay for Cosi 1999 – Nominated for Green Room Award Best New Australian Play for Language of the Gods 2000 – Nominated for New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for The Twelfth of Never 2000 – Courier-Mail Book of The Year for The Twelfth of Never 2009 – Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award for Ice. 2009 – First Australians: Logie Award: Outstanding Documentary or Documentary Series 2009 – First Australians: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Script Writing Award for Louis Nowra, Rachel Perkins and Beck Cole 2009 – First Australians: Australian Writers' Guild Award: Outstanding Writing in a Documentary (Episode 1) for Louis Nowra and Rachel Perkins 2013 – Patrick White Literary Award Works Plays Kiss The One-Eyed Priest (1973) Death of Joe Orton (1974) Inner Voices (Currency Press, 1977) The Lady of the Camellias (1979) Visions (Currency Press, 1979) Beauty and the Beast (1980) Cyrano De Bergerac (1980; translation of Edmond Rostand's French play) Inside The Island (Currency Press, 1981) The Precious Woman (Currency Press, 1981) Lulu (1981; adapted from Frank Wedekind's Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box) The Prince of Homburg (1982) Royal Show (1982) Spellbound (1982) Sunrise (Currency Press, 1983) Albert Names Edward (Currency Press, 1983) The Golden Age (Currency Press, 1985) The Song Room (Editions Rodopi, 1987) Capricornia (Currency Press, 1988; adapted from Xavier Herbert's novel) Byzantine Flowers (1989) Watchtower (1990) The Lewis Trilogy: Summer of the Aliens (Currency Press, 1992) Così (Currency Press, 1992) This Much Is True (2017) Radiance (1993) The Temple (1993) Crow (1994) Incorruptible (Currency Press, 1995) Jungle (1995) Miss Bosnia (1995) Language of the Gods (Currency Press, 1999) Beatrice (2003) Devil Is A Woman (2004) The Boyce Trilogy: The Woman with Dog's Eyes (2004) The Marvellous Boy (2005) The Emperor of Sydney (2006) Page 8 (2006) Non-fiction writing The Cheated (Angus & Robertson, Australia, 1979) Warne's World (Duffy & Snellgrove, Australia, 2002) Bad Dreaming (Pluto Press, Australia, 2007) Kings Cross: A Biography (NewSouth Publishing, Australia, 2013) Woolloomooloo: A Biography (NewSouth Publishing, Australia, 2017) Sydney: A Biography (NewSouth Publishing, Australia, 2020) Novels The Misery of Beauty (Angus & Robertson, Australia, 1976) Palu (Picador, Australia, 1987) Red Nights (Picador, Australia, 1997) Abaza (Picador, Australia, 2001) Ice (Allen & Unwin, 2008) Into That Forest (Allen & Unwin, 2012) Memoirs The Twelfth of Never (Picador, Australia, 1999) Shooting the Moon (Picador, Australia, 2004) Screenwriting Displaced Persons (1985) (TV film) Hunger (1986) The Lizard King