sentences:  In 2014 Greive was awarded the Order of Australia for his significant service to literature and wildlife conservation.Despite his many media appearances, Greive is known to be a very private person; a "self-described cave bear by nature, who equates publicity to "being stoned to death with toffee apples"" He currently lives on a remote farm on the East Coast of Tasmania, Australia and has never allowed media onto his property.In 2011, Greive temporarily relocated to Costa Rica to work on a new book entitled The Obsequious Parrot.