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The Patrick White Award is an annual prize given to an Australian writer. Worth $30,000, it comes from a trust that Patrick White set up with the money he received from winning the Nobel prize for literature. It's awarded to a novelist or a poet or dramatist, whose work hasn't received the recognition it deserves.

This year's winner is the very deserving Melbourne playwright John Romeril whose very first plays were performed 40 years ago in 1968 -- A Nameless Concern at La Mama in Carlton, directed by Graeme Blundell and The Kitchen Table at Monash University.

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Amanda Smith