2005 Patrick White Award

Poet Fay Zwicky has been announced as the winner of the 2005 Patrick White Award.

"The annual prize is given to an Australian writer whose work, in the opinion of the award committee, has not received adequate recognition." Previous winners of the award have included Amy Witting, Thea Astley, Dal Stivens, Randolph Stow, Gwen Harwood and Christina Stead.

Currently Reading

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Blind Eye by Stuart MacBride
Macbride's fifth DS McRae novel - hard to see it getting more gruesome than this.

 

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State of Emergency by Sam Fisher
Cinematic, high-tech, futuristic rescue fiction. This might have started its own genre.

 

Recently Read

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Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
A coming-of-age novel set in a small WA mining town in the 1960s. Ticks all the relevant boxes.

 

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Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
Chabon's homage to the adventure novel. Reminiscent of Moorcock and Leiber.

 

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Headlong by Susan Varga
When is life still worth living, or is it better to die with dignity?

 

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The Pages by Murray Bail
Bail's first novel since Eucalyptus, about an Outback genius philosopher - or is he? [Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Award.]

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