Patrick White Award
{{Short description|Australian literary award}}
{{confuse|Patrick White Playwrights' 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. White stipulated that the award be announced the Friday after the Melbourne Cup to turn attention from sport to literature.[https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/about/77-december-2012-january-2013/1281-patrick-white-to-the-rescue Carter, David. "Patrick White to the rescue", ABR, no. 347, December 2012-January 2013] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923085543/https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/about/77-december-2012-january-2013/1281-patrick-white-to-the-rescue |date=2015-09-23 }} The 2010 award was reduced to $18,000 because of the economic slump, and in 2012 it was $23,000. In 2020 the winner received $15,000.{{Cite web|last=Steger|first=Jason|date=2020-11-29|title=Patrick White makes a writer's Day, again|url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/patrick-white-makes-a-writer-s-day-again-20201127-p56ina.html|access-date=2020-11-30|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en}} Writers are automatically eligible without the necessity for submissions.
Winners
- 2024 Pi O{{Cite web |last=Mem: 7525192 |title=Pi-O wins 2024 Patrick White Literary Award {{!}} Books+Publishing |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2024/10/25/260952/pi-o-wins-2024-patrick-white-literary-award/ |access-date=2024-10-25 |language=en-AU}}
- 2023 Alex Skovron{{Cite web |date=2023-10-23 |title=Skovron wins 2023 Patrick White Award |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2023/10/23/239677/skovron-wins-2023-patrick-white-award/ |access-date=2023-10-26 |publisher=Books+Publishing}}
- 2022 Antigone Kefala{{Cite web |last= |date=2022-11-24 |title=Kefala wins 2022 Patrick White Award |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2022/11/24/223905/kefala-wins-2022-patrick-white-award/ |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=Books+Publishing |language=en-AU}}
- 2021 Adam Aitken{{Cite web|last=|date=2021-12-07|title=Aitken wins 2021 Patrick White Award|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/12/07/207313/aitken-wins-patrick-white-award/|access-date=2021-12-07|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}
- 2020 Gregory Day{{Cite web|date=2020-11-30|title=Day wins Patrick White Literary Award|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/11/30/160278/day-wins-patrick-white-literary-award/|access-date=2020-11-30|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}
- 2019 Jordie Albiston{{Cite web|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2019/11/18/142593/albiston-wins-2019-patrick-white-award/|title=Albiston wins 2019 Patrick White Award|date=18 November 2019|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-11-22}}
- 2018 Samuel Wagan Watson{{Cite news|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2018/10/30/118506/samuel-wagan-watson-wins-2018-patrick-white-literary-award/|title=Samuel Wagan Watson wins 2018 Patrick White Literary Award {{!}} Books+Publishing|access-date=2018-10-31|language=en-AU}}
- 2017 Tony Birch{{cite journal|last1=Steger|first1=Jason|title=Tony Birch wins Patrick White Award|journal=Sydney Morning Herald|date=2017|volume=15 November 2017|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/tony-birch-wins-the-patrick-award-20171115-gzm1xi.html|access-date=16 November 2017}}
- 2016 Carmel Bird{{cite web |url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/carmel-bird-wins-the-20000-patrick-white-award-20161017-gs44rb.html |title=Carmel Bird wins the $20,000 Patrick White Award|work=Sydney Morning Herald |author=Jason Steger |date=October 17, 2016 |access-date=September 10, 2023}}
- 2015 Joan London{{cite web|title="London wins 2015 Patrick White Literary Award" |publisher= Books+Publishing, 29 October 2015|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2015/10/29/34322/london-wins-2015-patrick-white-literary-award/|access-date= 27 August 2023}}
- 2014 Brian Castro{{cite web |url=http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/books/patrick-white-literary-award-winner-brian-castro-recalls-his-encounter-with-the-grumpy-neighbour-20141107-11i3m7.html |title=Louis Nowra wins $23,000 Patrick White Literary Award|work=The Age |author=Susan Wyndham |date=November 7, 2014 |access-date=September 10, 2023}}
- 2013 Louis Nowra{{cite web |url=http://www.smh.com.au/national/louis-nowra-wins-23000-patrick-white-literary-award-20131108-2x6uc.html |title=Louis Nowra wins $23,000 Patrick White Literary Award|work=Sydney Morning Herald |author=Susan Wyndham |date=November 9, 2013 |access-date=September 10, 2023}}
- 2012 Amanda Lohrey{{cite web |url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/religion-shapes-winners-prose-20121116-29hf8.html |title=Religion shapes winner's prose |work=Sydney Morning Herald |author=Susan Wyndham |date=November 16, 2012 |access-date=November 18, 2012}}
- 2011 Robert Adamson{{cite web | title=Former inmate wins $18,000 poetry prize | website=canberratimes.com.au | date=7 November 2011 | url=http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/former-inmate-wins-18000-poetry-prize/2347900.aspx | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111107071348/http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/former-inmate-wins-18000-poetry-prize/2347900.aspx | archive-date=7 November 2011 | url-status=dead | access-date=27 August 2022}}
- 2010 David Foster{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/literary-postman-delivers-again-winning-mentors-bequest-20101112-17r7f.html|title=Literary postman delivers again, winning mentor's bequest |publisher=SMH.com.au |date=2010-11-13 |access-date=2023-09-10}}
- 2009 Beverley Farmer{{cite web|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/books/farmer-wins-literary-award/2009/11/07/1257247756477.html |title=Farmer wins literary award |publisher=Theage.com.au |date=2009-11-07 |access-date=2012-04-04}}
- 2008 John Romeril{{cite web|title= Austlit — Patrick White Award - Past Winners |publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/v617?mainTabTemplate=awardWorksAndAgents|access-date= 22 August 2023}}
- 2007 David Rowbotham
- 2006 Morris Lurie{{cite web|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/in-the-right-place-at-the-white-time/2006/11/10/1162661899433.html |title=In the right place at the White time, for $25,000 |publisher=Theage.com.au |access-date=2012-04-04}}
- 2005 Fay Zwicky{{cite web|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/books/writers-solitary-life-interrupted-by-award/2005/11/11/1131578237917.html |title=Writers' solitary life interrupted by award |publisher=Theage.com.au |access-date=2012-04-04}}
- 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