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PASCALL PRIZE FOR CRITICAL WRITING
Noel Purdon
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Since winning
the prize I have continued as film critic of the The Adelaide Review. I
take particular interest in supplementing the reviews with interviews with
people as diverse as Heath Ledger and Ken Loach, and in encouraging local
cinema by articles on our Film Festival and local industry. In 2004 I acted
as dramaturg on The Rope Project for Brink Productions, and several of my
short stories have been published in anthologies. This freeing of the
creative spirit has been one of the chief bounties of the Prize. As a direct
descendant of Captain Francis Light and Martina Rozells, I have always
wanted to write a novel based on their lives and those of their daughter
Sarah, son William, and Sarah's husband General James Welsh.
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The Prize has
enabled me to pursue the love of travel reflected in my third book 'Spinning
the Globe'. In the past few years I have traced my ancestors' voyages
throughout India, Thailand, and of course, England, Penang and Adelaide. As
a member of FIBIS and the Siam Society, and an inhabitant of the City
planned by William Light, I have been active in the library and the field.
The book, called The Winds, is well under way. In March 2007 the memorial
to which my Light cousins and myself made a substantial donation will be
opened as the restored splendour of Suffolk House by the PM of Malaysia.
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My (Pascall) Winner’s speech was about The Critic
as Artist. How richly the Prize has proved that
true.
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