Patrick White
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. 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.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 modern languages at Cambridge. On his graduation in 1935, he embarked on a literary career. His first published novel, ''Happy Valley'' (1939), was awarded the Gold Medal of the Australian Literature Society. In World War Two, he served as an intelligence officer in the Royal Air Force. While stationed in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1941, he met Manoly Lascaris who was to become his life companion and, as White later wrote, "the central mandala in my life's hitherto messy design."
White returned to Australia in 1948 where he bought a small farm on the outskirts of Sydney. There he wrote the two novels, ''The Tree of Man'' (1955) and ''Voss'' (1957), which brought him critical acclaim in the United States and the United Kingdom. In the 1960s, he wrote the novels ''Riders in the Chariot'' (1961) and ''The Solid Mandala'' (1966) and a series of plays including ''The Season at Sarsaparilla'' and ''A'' ''Cheery Soul'' which had a major impact on Australian theatre.
White and Lascaris moved to Sydney's Centennial Park in 1964. From the late 1960s, White became increasingly involved in public affairs, opposing the Vietnam war and supporting Aboriginal self-determination, nuclear disarmament and various environmental causes. His later work includes the novels ''The Eye of the Storm'' (1973) and ''The Twyborn Affair'' (1979) and the memoir ''Flaws in the Glass'' (1981)''.'' Provided by Wikipedia
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Riders in the chariot. Patrick White. by White, Patrick, 1912-1990
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The Twyborn affair : a novel by White, Patrick, 1912-1990
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Letters by White, Patrick, 1912-1990
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The cockatoos; shorter novels and stories. by White, Patrick, 1912-1990
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The eye of the storm. by White, Patrick, 1912-1990
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The tree of man. by White, Patrick, 1912-1990
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The Twyborn affair by White, Patrick, 1912-1990
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Three uneasy pieces by White, Patrick, 1912-1990
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Voss : a novel by White, Patrick, 1912-1990
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Flaws in the glass : a self-portrait by White, Patrick, 1912-1990
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The Twyborn affair by White, Patrick, 1912-1990
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The living and the dead by White, Patrick, 1912-1990
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The solid mandala. by White, Patrick, 1912-1990
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Patrick White Speaks. by White, Patrick, 1912-1990
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A fringe of leaves by White, Patrick, 1912-1990
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The eye of the storm by White, Patrick, 1912-1990
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The hanging garden by White, Patrick, 1912-1990
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A fringe of leaves by White, Patrick, 1912-1990
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The aunt's story by White, Patrick, 1912-1990
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Happy valley : a novel. by White, Patrick, 1912-1990
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