Honours
- 1982 (1982) – Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism, given by the College Art Association of America.
- 1985 (1985) – second Frank Jewett Mather Award
- 1987 (1987) – named New York Public Library Literary Lion
- 1988 (1988) – named recipient of the American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award.
- 1988 (1988) – W. H. Smith Literary Award for The Fatal Shore
- 1991 (1991) – Officer of the Order of Australia
- 1995 (1995) – granted an Honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Melbourne
- 1996 (1996) – elected to membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1997 (1997) – elected one of 40 "Living National Treasures" after a general vote conducted by the Australian media on behalf of the National Trust of Australia
- 2000 (2000) – London Sunday Times Writer of the Year (previous recipients of the award including Anthony Burgess, Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, and Salman Rushdie)
- 2007 (2007) – New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for non-fiction for Things I Didn't Know: a Memoir
- 2009 (2009) – "The Mona Lisa Curse" – Winner of the 2009 Grierson Award for Best Documentary on the Arts, Oxford Film and Television for Channel 4, UK
- 2009 (2009) – International Emmy Award – Arts Programming, "The Mona Lisa Curse", Oxford Film and Television for Channel 4, UK
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