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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.
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- King's College, Cambridge
- 1935–1987
- Selected works
Apr 15, 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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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 · There is more than one author by this name on Goodreads. For the Canadian Poet Laureate see "Patrick^^^^^White". 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.
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Sep 30, 1990 · Facts. Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. 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”
Defining Moments. Patrick White wins Nobel Prize. 1973: Patrick White wins Nobel Prize. Patrick White. In 1973 Patrick White was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. White’s work explores some of humankind’s great existential questions in a distinctly Australian environment. Patrick White on Australia:
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