ThePatrick White Award is an annual literary prize established byPatrick White. White used his 1973Nobel 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 theMelbourne Cup to turn attention from sport to literature.^[1] The2010 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.

• 2024Pi O^[5]
• 2023Alex Skovron^[6]
• 2022Antigone Kefala^[7]
• 2021Adam Aitken^[8]
• 2020Gregory Day^[9]
• 2019Jordie Albiston^[10]
• 2018Samuel Wagan Watson^[11]
• 2017Tony Birch^[12]
• 2016Carmel Bird^[13]
• 2015Joan London^[14]
• 2014Brian Castro^[15]
• 2013Louis Nowra^[16]
• 2012Amanda Lohrey^[3]
• 2011Robert Adamson^[17]
• 2010David Foster^[2]
• 2009Beverley Farmer^[18]
• 2008John Romeril^[19]
• 2007David Rowbotham^[19]
• 2006Morris Lurie^[20]
• 2005Fay Zwicky^[21]
• 2004Nancy Phelan^[19]
• 2003Janette Turner Hospital^[19]
• 2002Tom Hungerford^[19]
• 2001Geoff Page^[19]
• 2000Thomas Shapcott^[19]
• 1999Gerald Murnane^[19]
• 1998Alma De Groen^[19]
• 1997Vivian Smith^[19]
• 1996Elizabeth Harrower^[19]
• 1995Elizabeth Riddell^[19]
• 1994Dimitris Tsaloumas^[19]
• 1993Amy Witting^[19]
• 1992Peter Cowan^[19]
• 1991David Martin^[19]
• 1990Robert Gray^[19]
• 1989Thea Astley^[19]
• 1988Roland Robinson^[19]
• 1987William Hart-Smith^[19]
• 1986John Morrison^[19]
• 1985Judah Waten (posthumous)^[19]
• 1984Rosemary Dobson^[19]
• 1983Marjorie Barnard^[19]
• 1982Bruce Beaver^[19]
• 1981Dal Stivens^[19]
• 1980Bruce Dawe^[19]
• 1979Randolph Stow^[19]
• 1978Gwen Harwood^[19]
• 1977Sumner Locke Elliott^[19]
• 1976John Blight^[19]
• 1975David Campbell^[19]
• 1974Christina Stead^[19]

• Australian literary awards
• Awards established in 1974
• 1974 establishments in Australia
• Patrick White Award winners

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