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- ↑ Australian Poets and their Works, by W. Wilde, Oxford University Press, 1996
- ↑ Jason Steger, Best wishes from Patrick White: $20,000 prize for a man of letters, Sydney Morning Herald , 11 November 2000, p. 5
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