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Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990) was a British-born Australian writer who published 12 novels, three short-story collections, and eight plays, from 1935 to 1987. White's fiction employs humour, florid prose, shifting narrative vantage points and stream of consciousness techniques.
May 24, 2024 · Patrick White (born May 28, 1912, London, England—died September 30, 1990, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) was an Australian novelist and playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973.
Biographical. I was born on May 28th 1912 in Knightsbridge, London, to Australian parents. Victor White was then forty-two, his wife, Ruth Withycombe, ten years younger.
Sep 30, 2019 · White’s books are metaphysical, lyrical, high modernist, full of baroque descriptions of landscapes, and unsparing in his examination of the people who live in them. For a country besotted with kitchen-sink realism and plain-speaking larrikins, Patrick White was baffling.
Aug 29, 2001 · Patrick White – Existential explorer. by Karin Hansson* Nobel Prize. When Patrick White was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973, the Swedish Academy’s commendation referred to the author’s epic and psychological narrative art as having introduced a new continent into literature.
Sep 30, 1990 · Patrick White’s novels and plays explore the history of his native Australia and its inhabitants. During his lifetime he was more popular internationally than at home, where his critical gaze was not always appreciated.
Patrick Victor Martindale White (1912-1990), author, was born on 28 May 1912 in London, elder child of New South Wales-born Victor (Dick) Martindale White, grazier, and his wife Ruth, née Withycombe, born in England but of a New South Wales family.
Welcome to the world of Patrick White, Australia’s only Nobel Laureate in Literature. Here you will find facts, figures, and commentary on White’s entire oeuvre, from his thirteen novels to his plays, short stories, essays, and much more.
Sep 30, 1990 · Patrick Victor Martindale White was an Australian author widely regarded as one of the major English-language novelists of the 20th century, and winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature. Born in England while his Australian parents were visiting family, White grew up in Sydney before studying at Cambridge.
Best known as the author of such novels as The Tree of Man (1955) and Voss (1957), Patrick White remains a central figure in Australian literature.
