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] and in 2012 it was $23,000.[3] In 2020 the winner received $15,000.[4] Writers are automatically eligible without the necessity for submissions.
Winners
- 2023 Alex Skovron[5]
- 2022 Antigone Kefala[6]
- 2021 Adam Aitken[7]
- 2020 Gregory Day[8]
- 2019 Jordie Albiston[9]
- 2018 Samuel Wagan Watson[10]
- 2017 Tony Birch[11]
- 2016 Carmel Bird[12]
- 2015 Joan London[13]
- 2014 Brian Castro[14]
- 2013 Louis Nowra[15]
- 2012 Amanda Lohrey[3]
- 2011 Robert Adamson[16]
- 2010 David Foster[2]
- 2009 Beverley Farmer[17]
- 2008 John Romeril[18]
- 2007 David Rowbotham[18]
- 2006 Morris Lurie[19]
- 2005 Fay Zwicky[20]
- 2004 Nancy Phelan[18]
- 2003 Janette Turner Hospital[18]
- 2002 Tom Hungerford[18]
- 2001 Geoff Page[18]
- 2000 Thomas Shapcott[18]
- 1999 Gerald Murnane[18]
- 1998 Alma De Groen[18]
- 1997 Vivian Smith[18]
- 1996 Elizabeth Harrower[18]
- 1995 Elizabeth Riddell[18]
- 1994 Dimitris Tsaloumas[18]
- 1993 Amy Witting[18]
- 1992 Peter Cowan[18]
- 1991 David Martin[18]
- 1990 Robert Gray[18]
- 1989 Thea Astley[18]
- 1988 Roland Robinson[18]
- 1987 William Hart-Smith[18]
- 1986 John Morrison[18]
- 1985 Judah Waten (posthumous)[18]
- 1984 Rosemary Dobson[18]
- 1983 Marjorie Barnard[18]
- 1982 Bruce Beaver[18]
- 1981 Dal Stivens[18]
- 1980 Bruce Dawe[18]
- 1979 Randolph Stow[18]
- 1978 Gwen Harwood[18]
- 1977 Sumner Locke Elliott[18]
- 1976 John Blight[18]
- 1975 David Campbell[18]
- 1974 Christina Stead[18]
References
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