Awards
- 1993: Shortlist - Hennessy Literary Award
- 1995: Winner - The Curtis Brown Award
- 2000: Longlist - The Irish Times Literature Award
- 2004: Shortlist - Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award
- 2006: Shortlist - British Book Award, the Border's New Voices Award, the Ottakar's Children's Book Prize, the Paolo Ungari Literary Award (Italy)
- 2007: Longlist - The Carnegie Medal
- 2007: Shortlist - Irish Novel of the Year Award, the Leeds Book Award, the North-East Book Award, the Berkshire Book Award, the Sheffield Book Award, the Lancashire Book Award, Prix Farniente (Belgium), Flemish Young Readers Award, Independent Booksellers Book of the Year
- 2007: Winner - Irish Book Awards: People's Choice Book of the Year, Irish Book Award Children's Book of the Year; Bisto Children's Book of the Year
- 2008: Nominated - the International IMPAC Literary Award
- 2008: Shortlist - Deutschen Jugend Literatur Preis (Germany)
- 2008: Winner - The Qué Leer Award for Best International Novel of the Year (in translation) (Spain)
- 2009: Winner - Orange Prize Readers Group Book of the Year
- 2009: Named Honorary Patron of the University Philosophical Society, Trinity College, Dublin.
- 2010: Shortlist - Irish Book Awards: Children's Book of the Year
- 2011: Shortlist - Sheffield Children's Book Award, Hull Children's Book Award
- 2012: Longlist - The Carnegie Medal
- 2012: Winner - Hennessy Literary Awards Hall of Fame
- 2012: Shortlist - Irish Book Awards: Children's Book of the Year
- 2013: Longlist - The Carnegie Medal
- 2013: Nominated - the International IMPAC Literary Award
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