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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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1973 was awarded to Patrick White "for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature"
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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.
Dec 23, 2023 · Patrick White is not for small-souled readers; his ambitions were on a scale of Mahler or Delacroix. He thought the great artist should be a seer, a visionary, a mystic to rescue the world from dullness and trifles, from littleness and contingency.
- William Poulos
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.
Sep 30, 1990 · Patrick White The Nobel Prize in Literature 1973 . Born: 28 May 1912, London, United Kingdom . Died: 30 September 1990, Sydney, Australia . Residence at the time of the award: Australia . Prize motivation: “for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature” Language: English . Prize share: 1/1
