Patrick White Award

The Patrick White Award is an annual literary prize established by Patrick White. White used his 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature award to establish a trust for this prize.

The $25,000 cash award is given to a writer who has been highly creative over a long period but has not necessarily received adequate recognition. The 2010 award was reduced to $18,000 because of the economic slump.^[1] Writers are automatically eligible without the necessity for submissions.

Previous winners

• 2011 – Robert Adamson^[2]
• 2010 – David Foster^[1]
• 2009 – Beverley Farmer ^[3]
• 2008 – John Romeril ^[4]
• 2007 – David Rowbotham ^[5]
• 2006 – Morris Lurie ^[6]
• 2005 – Fay Zwicky ^[7]
• 2004 – Nancy Phelan
• 2003 – Janette Turner Hospital
• 2002 – Tom Hungerford
• 2001 – Geoff Page
• 2000 – Thomas W. Shapcott
• 1999 – Gerald Murnane
• 1998 – Alma de Groen
• 1997 – Vivian Smith
• 1996 – Elizabeth Harrower
• 1995 – Elizabeth Riddell
• 1994 – Dimitris Tsaloumas
• 1993 – Amy Witting
• 1992 – Peter Cowan
• 1991 – David Martin
• 1990 – Robert Gray
• 1989 – Thea Astley
• 1988 – Roland Robinson
• 1987 – William Hart-Smith
• 1986 – John Morrison
• 1985 – Judah Waten
• 1984 – Rosemary Dobson
• 1983 – Marjorie Barnard
• 1982 – Bruce Beaver
• 1981 – Dal Stivens
• 1980 – Bruce Dawe
• 1979 – Randolph Stow
• 1978 – Gwen Harwood
• 1977 – Sumner Locke Elliott
• 1976 – John Blight
• 1975 – David Campbell
• 1974 – Christina Stead

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