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. White stipulated that the award be announced the Friday after the Melbourne Cup to turn attention from sport to literature.[1] The 2010 award was reduced to $18,000 because of the economic slump,[2] in 2012 it was $23,000.[3] Writers are automatically eligible without the necessity for submissions.
Winners
- 2015 Joan London[4]
- 2014 Brian Castro[5]
- 2013 Louis Nowra[6]
- 2012 Amanda Lohrey [3]
- 2011 Robert Adamson[7]
- 2010 David Foster[2]
- 2009 Beverley Farmer [8]
- 2008 John Romeril [9]
- 2007 David Rowbotham [10]
- 2006 Morris Lurie [11]
- 2005 Fay Zwicky [12]
- 2004 Nancy Phelan
- 2003 Janette Turner Hospital
- 2002 Tom Hungerford
- 2001 Geoff Page
- 2000 Thomas 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 (posthumous)
- 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
References
- ↑ Carter, David. "Patrick White to the rescue", ABR, no. 347, December 2012-January 2013
- 1 2 "Literary postman delivers again, winning mentor's bequest ", Nov 13, 2010
- 1 2 Susan Wyndham (November 16, 2012). "Religion shapes winner's prose". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved November 18, 2012.
- ↑ 2015 Patrick White Literary Award announced, Australian Eye, October 28, 2015.
- ↑ Patrick White Literary Award winner Brian Castro recalls his encounter with the grumpy neighbour, The Age, November 7, 2014
- ↑ "Louis Nowra wins $23,000 Patrick White Literary Award", Sydney Morning Herald, November 9, 2013
- ↑ Former inmate wins $18,000 poetry prize, The Canberra Times, 5 November 2011.
- ↑ "Farmer wins literary award". Theage.com.au. 2009-11-07. Retrieved 2012-04-04.
- ↑ "The Age", 8 November 2008, p13
- ↑ Sorensen, Rosemary (2007-11-10). "White award soothes poet's anger". The Australian. Retrieved 2012-04-04.
- ↑ "In the right place at the White time, for $25,000". Theage.com.au. Retrieved 2012-04-04.
- ↑ "Writers' solitary life interrupted by award". Theage.com.au. Retrieved 2012-04-04.
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