Winner of the 2023 Australian Book Industry Awards Children’s Picture Book of the Year for WHAT TO SAY WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT TO SAY!

Winner of the 2023 NSW Premier’s Literary Award Christina Stead Prize for Fiction for WOMEN I KNOW!

A 2023 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist for WOMEN I KNOW!

Winner of the 2023 Stella Prize for THE JAGUAR!

Shortlisted for the 2023 ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year for EXILES!

Shortlisted for the 2023 ABIA Small Publisher’s Children’s Book of the Year for KOORI PRINCESS!

Shortlisted for the 2023 ABIA Small Publisher’s Adult Book of the Year for COLD ENOUGH FOR SNOW!

Shortlisted for the 2023 ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year for SEEING OTHER PEOPLE!

Shortlisted for the 2023 ABIA General Non-Fiction Book of the Year for REASONS NOT TO WORRY!

Shortlisted for the 2023 ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year for EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE!

Shortlisted for the 2023 ABIA Children’s Picture Book of the Year for BE CAREFUL XIAO XIN!

Shortlisted for the 2023 CBCA Children’s Book of the Year Awards for BEV AND KEV!

Shortlisted for the 2023 CBCA Children’s Book of the Year Awards for THE OTHER SIDE OF TOMORROW!

Shortlisted for the 2023 NSW Premier's Literary Awards (UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing) for WOMEN I KNOW!

Shortlisted for the 2023 NSW Premier's Literary Awards (Multicultural NSW Award) for WHEN GRANNY CAME TO STAY!

Shortlisted for the 2023 NSW Premier's Literary Awards (Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry) for THE JAGUAR!

Shortlisted for the 2023 NSW Premier's Literary Awards (Christina Stead Prize for Fiction) for COLD ENOUGH FOR SNOW!

Winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award Fiction and the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature!

For his service to the performing arts and to Indigenous rights and reconciliation.

Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards for 2023 for SEEING OTHER PEOPLE!