 He is most well known for "Eucalyptus", which won the Miles Franklin Award in 1999.His other work includes the novels "Homesickness", which was a joint winner of The Age Book of the Year in 1980, and "Holden's Performance", another award-winner.Reviewers recently compared Bail's "Notebooks 1970-2003" with Proust, Gide and Valéry's.