Patrick White Award
1 appearances
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Edition 7 (1980) Winner
Bruce Dawe
ブルース・ドー
Burūsu Dō
Aliases:
Donald Bruce Dawe
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1930-02-15 （Fitzroy, Victoria）
- Died
- 2020-04-01 （Caloundra, Queensland） age 90
- Nationality
- Australian
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Residence History
- Fitzroy, Victoria → Melbourne → Sydney → Toowoomba, Queensland → Caloundra, Queensland
Career
- Occupations
- poet, academic, teacher, labourer, RAAF education assistant
- Active Years
- 1947-2020
- Affiliations
- Downlands College, Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education, University of Southern Queensland
- Influenced
- John Kinsella
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northcote High School | — | General | — | 児童期 | Australia |
| University of Melbourne | — | Education | Teaching scholarship | 1954 | Australia |
| University of Southern Queensland | Arts | English Literature | BA, MLitt, MA, PhD | パートタイム | Australia |
Northcote High School
General
Period:
児童期
Country:
Australia
Dropped out
University of Melbourne
Education
Degree:
Teaching scholarship
Period:
1954
Country:
Australia
Enrolled on scholarship but left
University of Southern Queensland
Arts
/ English Literature
Degree:
BA, MLitt, MA, PhD
Period:
パートタイム
Country:
Australia
Four degrees by part-time study
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Myer Poetry Prize | — | — | Myer | 受賞 |
| 1967 | Ampol Arts Award for Creative Literature | — | — | Ampol | 受賞 |
| 1978 | Grace Leven Prize for Poetry | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1980 | Patrick White Literary Award | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1984 | Christopher Brennan Award | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1992 | Officer of the Order of Australia | — | 文学、特に詩 | Australian Government | 受賞 |
| 2001 | Centenary Medal | — | 芸術への貢献 | Australian Government | 受賞 |
Myer Poetry Prize
1965
Organization:
Myer
Result:
受賞
Ampol Arts Award for Creative Literature
1967
Organization:
Ampol
Result:
受賞
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry
1978
Result:
受賞
Patrick White Literary Award
1980
Result:
受賞
Christopher Brennan Award
1984
Result:
受賞
Officer of the Order of Australia
1992
Category:
文学、特に詩
Organization:
Australian Government
Result:
受賞
Centenary Medal
2001
Category:
芸術への貢献
Organization:
Australian Government
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Sometimes Gladness
1978 Poetry collectionCollected poems 1954-1978, sold over 100,000 copies.
ordinary Australianssocial issues
Homecoming
1968 PoemAnti-war poem about Vietnam War body bags.
wardeath
Enter Without So Much as Knocking
1959 PoemSatire on consumer society.
consumerismlife
Bibliography
- No Fixed Address: poems (1962)
- A Need of Similar Name (1965)
- An Eye for a Tooth (1968)
- Beyond the Subdivisions: Poems (1969)
- Heat-Wave: Poems (1970)
- Condolences of the Season: Selected Poems (1971)
- Just a Dugong at Twilight: Mainly Light Verse (1975)
- Sometimes Gladness: Collected Poems, 1954-1978 (1978)
- Sometimes Gladness: Collected Poems, 1954-1982 (1983)
- Selected Poems (1984)
- Towards Sunrise: Poems, 1979-1986 (1986)
- Sometimes Gladness: Collected Poems, 1954-1987 (1988)
- This Side of Silence: Poems 1987–1990 (1990)
- Sometimes Gladness: Collected Poems, 1954-1992 (1993)
- Mortal Instruments: Poems 1990–1995 (1995)
- Sometimes Gladness: Collected Poems, 1954-1997 (1997)
- A Poet's People (1999)
- The Headlong Traffic: Poems and Prose Monologues 1997 to 2002 (2003)
- Towards a War: Twelve Reflections (2003)
- Sometimes Gladness: Collected Poems, 1954–2005, 6th Edition (2006)
- Slo-Mo Tsunami and Other Poems (2011)
- Blind Spots (2013)
- Kevin Almighty (2013)
- Animal Tales (2014)
- Border Security (2016)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- colloquialsatiricalvernacular
- Recurring Motifs
- ordinary peopleconsumer societywarenvironmental degradationAboriginal issues
Legacy
One of the most influential Australian poets. Established Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize.
Archives
- State Library of Queensland
In Popular Culture
- Poems used in school curricula
Trivia
- Only family member to complete primary school
- Learned Scottish poems from mother
- Wrote lyrics for RAAF school song in Penang