- He was awarded the A.O. (Officer of the Order of Australia) in the 1995 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to Literature.
- His surname is pronounced "Kosh".
- His father was an accountant. His mother had attended high school on Tasmania with Errol Flynn.
- He worked in the art department of a newspaper, before graduating from the University of Tasmania in 1954. He published his first novel in 1958. He subsequently attended Stanford University, where he studied writing; his fellow students included American writers Ken Kesey and Larry McMurtry.
- West Launceston, Tasmania, Australia (January 2009)
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content