The prize money, currently A$20,000, is the richest and most prestigious award for an unpublished manuscript in Australia.
In 2009, he was awarded the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Ren, the award is worth about $200,000 and is one of the world's richest literary awards.
They are among the richest literary awards in Australia.
These are among the richest awards in the world, if not the richest in certain categories.
The Idea of Perfection appeared in 2000 and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, at the time Britain's richest literary award.
The Templeton prize, perhaps the world's richest annual award,has been given since 1972 to an individual whose "original and pioneering ways advanced the knowledge and love of God."
It is administered by the Australian Society of Authors, and is one of Australia's richest literary awards.
The prize is five million SEK, making it the richest award in children's literature and one of the richest literary prizes in the world.
The awards are held annually and initially provided a tax-free prize of A$100,000 in each category, making it Australia's richest literary award in total.
In 2013, he was awarded the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, one of the richest literary awards in the world.