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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.
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.
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.
Oct 19, 2023 · Consider The Tree of Man by Patrick White as a pioneer novel , Patrick White’s “The Tree of Man” stands as one of the quintessential representations of Australian literature, pioneering a new wave of narrative and reflection of the nation’s identity.
White is the omniscient narrator, and his hand steers his fictional characters through their unfolding lives, in detail that is both tragic and mundanely quotidian alike. You may well need stamina sufficient for the five hundred pages of The Tree of Man, but you will be rewarded with consummate penmanship and breath-taking fiction.
Patrick White is a historical fiction and fiction author that is regarded as one of the major novelists of the past century. The author was born in London in 1912 as the eldest child of the grazier Martindale White an Australian from New South Wales and his English-born wife Ruth Withycombe who also had roots in New South Wales.
Nov 29, 2018 · In 1973, the Swedish Academy awarded Australian author and A Cheery Soul playwright Patrick White the Nobel Literature Prize, "for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature".
