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Patrick White

Australian writer (1912–1990)

For other people named Patrick White, see Patrick White (disambiguation).

Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990) was an Australian novelist and playwright who explored themes of religious experience, personal identity and the conflict between visionary individuals and a materialistic, conformist society.

Patrick White is a biography of classic excellence - sympathetic, objective, penetrating and as blunt, when necessary, as White himself.

This biography of Australian Nobel prize winning author Patrick White is meticulously researched and is written with style, compassion and humour.

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Marr makes a point about his difficult relationship with Australia that explains both White's passionate attachment to the idea of the place, to his own edenic.

Patrick White was born in London in 1912, on one of his parents' periodic sojourns in the colonial cultural capital.

Influenced by the modernism of James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, he developed a complex literary style and a body of work which challenged the dominant realist prose tradition of his home country, was satirical of Australian society, and sharply divided local critics.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973, the only Australian to have been awarded the literary prize.^{[note 1]}

Born in London to affluent Australian parents, White spent his childhood in Sydney and on his family's rural properties.

He was sent to an English public school at age 13 and went on to read moder