Carmel Bird wins the $20,000 Patrick White Award

By Jason Steger
Updated October 23 2016 - 10:18am, first published October 17 2016 - 7:00pm
Carmel Bird has won the Patrick White Award. Photo: Supplied
Carmel Bird has won the Patrick White Award. Photo: Supplied

It was in the early 1960s that Carmel Bird met Patrick White. Her then-boyfriend was involved in a production of The Season at Sarsaparilla in Adelaide and there were drinks with the great man who was to become Australia's only winner of the Nobel prize for Literature.