Awards and Citations
1982 Eric Gregory Award
1985 Dylan Thomas Award The Silver Age
1997 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry
1997 Sundance Film Festival Screenwriter Award Sunday
1999 TLS/Blackwells Poetry Competition (first prize)
2001 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) (shortlist) Landscape with Chainsaw
2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (shortlist) Landscape with Chainsaw
2001 T. S. Eliot Prize (shortlist) Landscape with Chainsaw
2002 An Economist Best Book of the Year The Horned Man
2002 A New York Times Notable Book of the Year The Horned Man
2006 National Short Story Competition (’An Anxious Man’)
2007 Booker Man Prize (long list) Seven Lies
2007 An Economist Best Book of the Year Seven Lies
2007 Encore Award (shortlist) Seven Lies
2007 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction) (shortlist) Seven Lies