Awards and Nominations
- 1988 - received the 1988 Herbert Eugene Bolton Memorial Prize for Ambivalent Conquests
- 1999 - winner of the NSW History Awards, Premier's General History Prize 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 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 an Officer in the Order of Australia for her services as a writer and historian.
- 2007 - received the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal
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