National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category for Reading the Holocaust 1999 – Reading the Holocaust was judged Best Book of the Year by The New York Times 2000 – New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Gleebooks Prize for Critical Writing for Reading the Holocaust 2002 – received the Adelaide Festival Award for Innovation for Tiger's Eye 2003 – received the New South Wales Premier's History Award for her piece "History Here: a Vier from Outside" 2004 – New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction for Dancing with Strangers 2005 – recipient of the ASA (Australian Society of Authors) biennial medal 2006 – Appointed Officer of the Order of Australia for her services as a writer and historian. 2007 – received the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal 2016 – Dan David Prize Bibliography Books Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatán, 1517–1570 (1987) Aztecs: An Interpretation (1991) Reading the Holocaust (1998) True Stories (1999) Tiger's Eye: A Memoir (2000) Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact (2003) True Stories: History, Politics, Aboriginality (2008) (2nd ed.) The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society: Essays on Mesoamerican Society and Culture (2010) Essays and Essay Collections Agamemnon's Kiss: Selected Essays (2006) "The History Question: Who Owns the Past?" (2006) (from the 23rd edition of Quarterly Essay) Articles Review of References External links Australian Biography Online 1999 Boyer Lectures by Inga Clendinnen 1934 births 2016 deaths Australian historians Academics from Melbourne Officers of the Order of Australia Australian memoirists Australian Mesoamericanists Women Mesoamericanists Historians of Mesoamerica Aztec scholars Mayanists 20th-century Mesoamericanists University of Melbourne alumni Australian women memoirists 20th-century Australian women writers 20th-century Australian writers Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities 21st-century Mesoamericanists 21st-century Australian women writers 21st-century Australian writers University of Melbourne women Australian women historians