13 November 2006
Morris Lurie wins the Patrick White Award
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Melbourne writer Morris Lurie has won the $25,000 Patrick White Award. This award was established by Patrick White after he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973, as a way of acknowledging Australian writers who may not have received sufficient recognition for their work. Its honour roll includes Christina Stead, Janette Turner Hospital and Fay Zwicky.
Lurie's novels include Rappaport (1966), The London Adventures of Charlie Hope (1968), Rappaport's Revenge (1973), Flying Home (1978), Seven Books for Grossman (1983) and Madness (1991).
Flying Home was selected by the National Book Council as one of the ten best Australian books of its decade, The Twenty-Seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race , voted by schoolchildren of Victoria their favourite young storybook by an Australian author, and he also wrote his Bicentennial Award-winning autobiography, Whole Life.
Guests
Morris Lurie
Melbourne writer
Presenter
Ramona Koval
Producer
Rhiannon Brown
