David Malouf award received Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Awards and honours
As well as his numous accolades for fiction, Malouf was awarded the Pascall Prize for Critical Writing in 1988. In 2008, Malouf won the Australian Publishers Association's Lloyd O'Neil Award for outstanding service to the Australian book industry. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2008. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
1974: Grace Leven Prize for Poetry, for Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems
1974: Townsville Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Award, for Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems
1974: Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, for Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems
1974: Colin Roderick Award, for Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems
1979: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, for An Imaginary Life
1982: The Age Book of the Year Award, for Fly Away Peter
1983: Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, for Child's Play and Fly Away Peter
1985: Victorian Premier's Literary Award, for Antipodes
1990: National Library of Australia National Audio Book-of-the-Year Award joint winner, for The Great World
1991 Miles Franklin Award, for The Great World
1991: Commonwealth Writers' Prize (South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book from the Region Award), for The Great World
1991: Commonwealth Writers Prize, Overall Best Book Award, for The Great World
1991: Prix Femina Étranger, for The Great World
1991: Honorary doctorate from the University of Queensland
1992: Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, National Fiction Award, for The Great World
1993: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, for Remembering Babylon
1993: Booker Prize shortlist, for Remembering Babylon
1994: Prix Femina Étranger, for Remembering Babylon
1994: Commonwealth Writers Prize, South-East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book from the Region Award, for Remembering Babylon
1994: Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, for Remembering Babylon
1994: National Book Council Banjo Award for Fiction shortlist, for Remembering Babylon
1995: Prix Baudelaire (France), for Remembering Babylon
1996: International Dublin Literary Award, for Remembering Babylon
1996: The Age Book of the Year Award shortlist, for The Conversations at Curlow Creek
1997: Miles Franklin Award shortlist, for The Conversations at Curlow Creek
2000: Neustadt International Prize for Literature
2007: The Age Book of the Year Award for Fiction, for Every Move You Make
2007: The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Australian Short Story Collection – Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award
2008: Australia-Asia Literary Award, for The Complete Stories
2009: Q150 Icons of Queensland for his role as an "Influential Artist", announced as part of the Q150 celebrations
2009: John D. Criticos Prize for Greek literature, for Ransom
2011: International Dublin Literary Award shortlist, for Ransom
2011: International Booker Prize shortlist
2014: Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, for Earth Hour
2016: Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature
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