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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.
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Patrick White was an Australian novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973. He wrote about his childhood, his travels, his love of theatre and his views on society and politics in his novels.
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.
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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, 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.
Explore the life and works of Patrick White, the only Australian writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Learn about his novels, plays, essays, and more, with facts, figures, and commentary.
