Patrick White Award
1 appearances
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Edition 47 (2020) Winner
Gregory Day
グレゴリー・デイ
Guregorī Dei
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Nationality
- Australia
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Victoria, Australia
Career
- Occupations
- novelist, poet, musician
- Active Years
- 1990-
- Affiliations
- Merrijig Word & Sound Co.
- Nominations
- Commonwealth Writers' Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best First Book, 2006: The Patron Saint of Eels — shortlisted, New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, 2008: Ron McCoy's Sea of Diamonds — shortlisted, Tasmanian Literary Award, Tasmania Book Prize, 2017: Archipelago of Souls — shortlisted, Nature Conservancy Australia Nature Writing Prize, 2019: Summer On The Painkalac — shortlisted, Miles Franklin Award, 2019: A Sand Archive — shortlisted, Miles Franklin Award, 2024: The Bell of the World — shortlisted
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Patrick White Award | — | — | — | winner |
| 2006 | ALS Gold Medal | The Patron Saint of Eels | — | Association for the Study of Australian Literature | winner |
| 2011 | Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize | The Neighbour's Beans | — | — | winner |
| 2021 | Nature Conservancy Nature Writing Prize | Summer On The Painkalac | — | Nature Conservancy Australia | winner |
Patrick White Award
2020
Result:
winner
ALS Gold Medal
2006
Work:
The Patron Saint of Eels
Organization:
Association for the Study of Australian Literature
Result:
winner
Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
2011
Work:
The Neighbour's Beans
Result:
winner
Nature Conservancy Nature Writing Prize
2021
Work:
Summer On The Painkalac
Organization:
Nature Conservancy Australia
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The Patron Saint of Eels
2005 NovelDocuments generational, demographic, and environmental change on the 21st-century coast of Victoria, Australia.
environmentcoastchange
Archipelago of Souls
2015 NovelA Sand Archive
2018 NovelThe Bell of the World
2023 NovelBibliography
- The Patron Saint of Eels (2005)
- Ron McCoy's Sea of Diamonds (2007)
- The Grand Hotel (2010)
- Archipelago of Souls (2015)
- A Sand Archive (2018)
- The Bell of the World (2023)
- Words Are Eagles: Selected Writings on the Nature and Language of Place (2022)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Documents change on Victoria's coastNature and language of place
- Recurring Motifs
- coastenvironmental changeplace
Legacy
Known for novels documenting change on Victoria's coast.