Editing Patrick White (section)

==Influence and legacy==
Critic Susan Lever considers White a pivotal figure in Australian literature, stating that he made the novel, rather than poetry, the pre-eminent literary form. He "transformed the possibilities of the Australian novel by demonstrating that it was a place to test ideas against complex spiritual, psychological and emotional experience, not only an avenue for national storytelling."{{Sfnp|Lever|2009|p=498}}

Australian novelists influenced by White include [[Thomas Keneally]], [[Thea Astley]], [[Randolph Stow]] and [[Christopher Koch]]. Lever argues that the following generations of novelists were more influenced by recent trends in world literature. Novelist [[David Malouf]] states that White's "High Modernism" is a literary form that has become unfashionable but that this could change.{{Sfnp|Lever|2009|pp=500, 504-06}} Writing in 2024, critic Martin Thomas noted that critical and public interest in White had declined.{{Sfnp|Thomas|2024|p=155}}[[File:Patrick White Lawns.jpg|thumb|The Patrick White Lawns with temporary stage, March 2015.]]The [[Patrick White Award]] is an annual literary prize which White founded in 1975 with the prize money from his Nobel prize. It is awarded to writers who have made a significant contribution to Australian literature.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Patrick White Award |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/v617 |access-date=4 August 2024 |website=AustLit}}</ref> The Patrick White Indigenous Writers Award is for Indigenous students in New South Wales from Kindergarten to year 12. It is run by the Aboriginal Education Council which was a beneficiary of Patrick White's estate.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Patrick White Indigenous Writers Award |url=http://www.pwwc.org.au/about-us/ |access-date=4 August 2024 |website=Aboriginal Education Council|date=8 February 2017 }}</ref> The Sydney Theatre Company sponsors the [[Patrick White Playwrights' Award|Patrick White Playwrights Award]] and Fellowship in honour of White's contribution to Australian theatre.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Patrick White Playwrights Award and Fellowship |url=https://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/about/information-for-artists/patrick-white-playwrights-award-and-fellowship |access-date=4 August 2024 |website=Sydney Theatre Company}}</ref>

In 2006, the National Library of Australia acquired a large quantity of White's manuscripts. These included an unfinished novel, ''The Hanging Garden,'' which was published in 2012. The Art Gallery of New South Wales owns a 1940 portrait of White by de Maistre, and Parliament House, Sydney, owns a 1980 portrait by [[Brett Whiteley]].{{Sfnp|Webby|2012}} A portrait of White by [[Louis Kahan]] won the 1962 [[Archibald Prize]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Winner: Archibald Prize 1962, Louis Kahan — Patrick White |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/1962/16788/ |access-date=15 June 2024 |website=Art Gallery of New South Wales}}</ref> White donated much of his own collection of Australian art to the Art Gallery of New South Wales.{{Sfnp|Wilde|Hooton|Andrews|1994}}

As at 2024, there is no museum or institution dedicated to White's life and work. His former residence, "Dogwoods", at Castle Hill is privately owned but has a commemorative plaque and the surrounding streets are named after him. His former Sydney residence at Centennial Park is privately owned but is heritage listed.{{Sfnp|Thomas|2024|p=169}} White is commemorated by the Patrick White Lawns adjacent to the [[National Library of Australia]] in Canberra.<ref>[https://www.nationalcapital.gov.au/index.php/events-a-venues/venues-on-national-land/patrick-white-lawns Patrick White Lawns] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319132734/http://www.nationalcapital.gov.au/index.php/events-a-venues/venues-on-national-land/patrick-white-lawns|date=19 March 2015}}, [[National Capital Authority]], 1 February 2011, retrieved 8 March 2015</ref>

In 2006 a [[Literary hoax|hoaxer]] submitted a chapter of White's novel ''The Eye of the Storm'' to a dozen Australian publishers under the name Wraith Picket (an anagram of White's name). All of the publishers rejected the manuscript and none recognised it as White's work.{{Sfnp|Thomas|2024|p=155}}

In 2010, White's novel ''The Vivisector'' was shortlisted for the [[Lost Man Booker Prize]] for 1970.<ref>{{cite web |last=Sorensen |first=Rosemary |date=27 March 2010 |title=Patrick White on 'Lost Booker' shortlist |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/patrick-white-on-lost-booker-shortlist/story-e6frg8n6-1225846198615 |access-date=7 April 2010 |work=The Australian}}</ref> In 2011, [[Fred Schepisi]]'s film adaptation of the novel ''[[The Eye of the Storm (2011 film)|The Eye of the Storm]]'' won The Age Critics Award for the best Australian feature at the Melbourne International Film Festival.<ref>{{cite web |last=Bulbeck |first=Pip |date=9 August 2011 |title="The Eye Of The Storm" Wins at Melbourne International Film Festival |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/eye-storm-wins-at-melbourne-220825/ |access-date=4 August 2024 |website=The Hollywood Reporter}}</ref>