Patrick White Literary Award

Is an annual award established by Patrick White in 1973 with the proceeds of the Nobel Prize for Literature which he won that year. It is awarded to an older Australian writer whose work, in the opinion of the administrators of the fund, has not received the critical acclaim or the financial rewards it deserves. The following writers have won the award: Christina Stead (1974), David Campbell (1975), John Blight (1976), Sumner Locke Elliott (1977), Gwen Harwood (1978), Randolph Stow (1979), Bruce Dawe (1980), Dal Stivens (1981), Bruce Beaver (1982), Marjorie Barnard (1983), Rosemary Dobson (1984), Judah Waten (1985), John Morrison (1986), William Hart-Smith (1987), Roland Robinson (1988), Thea Astley (1989), Robert Gray (1990), David Martin (1991), Peter Cowan (1992), and Amy Witting (1993).

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