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Awards

PEN Lillian Ida Smith Award

Evening Standard Short Story Prize

American Express Short Story Award

New Zealand Literary Fund Scholarship in Letters

Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship in Menton, France

The ONZM for services to literature in 2000

Winner of the Deutz Medal for Fiction in the Montana NZ Book

Awards in 2000, for the novel `Harlequin Rex.'

The Press South Island Writers' Award, 2004

One of the New Zealand writers invited to France as part of Les Belles Etrangeres, 2006

NZSA President of Honour, 2007/8

NZSA Woollaston Estates Writer in Residence 2007

The CNZM for services to literature in 2012

Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement 2013

Paul Harris Fellow awarded by Rotary Foundation of Rotary International 2018