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Farmer wins 2009 Patrick White Literary Award
Beverley Farmer is the winner of this year’s $25,000 Patrick White Literary Award.
‘Farmer is not a prolific writer but rather an intense, meditative and gifted stylist,’ said judges Debra Adelaide, David Carter, Michael Costigan and Joy Hooton in their citation. ‘Farmer’s work has been praised as “deeply allusive, conjuring heat, uncertainty and memories of past trauma, in restrained yet resonant prose”. Her writing has continued to surprise with its increasing diversity, and its exploration of the relationships between life and art, reality and representation, self, myth and memory.’
The Patrick White Literary Award was established by White with money received for the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature to recognise writers who had ‘made a substantial contribution to Australian literature but, in the opinion of a selection committee, may not have received adequate recognition for their work’.
Farmer’s first collection of stories, Milk (Penguin) won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction and her 1995 novel The House in the Light (UQP) was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. Her photographs appear in the 2005 book of essays, The Bone House (Giramondo).
Since 1980 Farmer has published nine books, including the short story collection Home Time (Penguin), the novel Seal Woman (UQP) and Collected Stories (UQP) in 1996.
‘With the great significance of her contribution to Australian literature, the relative modesty of her public reputation outside literary circles, and her evident potential to produce more work that is innovative and engaging, she was seen as an excellent candidate for an award that is highly regarded by writers and throughout the literary community,’ said the selection panel.
Farmer will be presented with the Award at a celebration in Melbourne on 25 November.
Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2009/11/13916/
This article from Thorpe Bowker’s Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2009, Thorpe-Bowker.
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