Overseas Awards and Honours

 

The Bamboo Flute represented Australia in the International Board on Books for Young People congress in Spain, 1994, and appeared on two best-books-of-the-year lists in USA.

 

The Sunken Road was nominated for the 1996 Booker Prize by my English publisher, Fourth Estate.

 

Kickback won the 2000 Deutsche Krimi Preis, International

 

The Dragon Man won the 2001 Deutsche Krimi Preis, International

 

Chain of Evidence named as a best-book-of-the-year by Kirkus Reviews (USA, 2007)

 

Australian Awards and Honours

 

Early in my career I won many short story awards.

 

Several of my children’s/young adult novels have been shortlisted or awarded honour-book status in the annual Children’s Book Council Awards.

 

The Bamboo Flute won the CBC award in its category, Younger Readers, and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Award, 1993

 

Several of my crime novels have been shortlisted for the Ned Kelly award for best crime novel.

 

Chain of Evidence won the Ned Kelly award for best crime novel in 2007

 

Wyatt won the Ned Kelly award for best crime novel in 2010

 

The Divine Wind won the NSW Premier’s Award (Ethel Turner Prize), and was shortlisted for the South Australian Festival, Ethnic Affairs Commission and CBC-Older Readers awards, 1999

 

The Sunken Road was shortlisted for the National Book Council, South Australian Festival and Talking Book awards, 1996.

 

The Difference to Me and Flamingo Gate were shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award (1988, 1991)