Patrick White Award
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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.
[edit] 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
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Literary postman delivers again, winning mentor's bequest ", Nov 13, 2010
- ^ Former inmate wins $18,000 poetry prize, The Canberra Times, 5 November 2011.
- ^ Farmer wins literary award
- ^ "The Age", 8 November 2008, p13
- ^ White award soothes poet's anger
- ^ In the right place at the White time, for $25,000
- ^ Writers' solitary life interrupted by award
