Patrick White
Patrick White was born in England in 1912 and taken to Australia, where his father owned a sheep farm, when he was six months old. He was educated in England at Cheltenham college and King's College, Cambridge. He settled in London, where he wrote several unpublished novels, then served in the RAF during the war. He returned to Australia after the war.
He became the most considerable figure in modern Australian literature, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. The great poet of Australian landscape, he turned its vast empty spaces into great mythic landscapes of the soul. His position as a man of letters was controversial, provoked by his acerbic, unpredictable public statements and his belief that it is eccentric individuals who offer the only hope of salvation. He died in September 1990.
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Patrick White has been hailed as one of the most important English language novelists of the 20th century and today would have marked his 100th birthday. Born on this day in England in 1912 he was then taken to Australia where his father owned a sheep farm. Patrick White was educated in England at Cheltenham College and King's College in Cambridge before settling...
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Australia’s dedicated arts and entertainment subscription channel STUDIO has announced a new series set to explore the world of literature. FOR THE LOVE OF BOOKS, premiering Monday 23 April at 8.30pm, will see the show's three book club hosts, Cheryl Akle, Lachlan Jobbins and Michael Campbell offer reviews of new releases and acclaimed classics. The first series will...
Books by Patrick White
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The Hanging Garden
by Patrick WhitePublished: 02/04/2013
A previously unpublished novel from the Australian winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
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The Vivisector
by Patrick WhitePublished: 01/10/2012
This Patrick White masterpiece, now in a Vintage Classics edition
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Voss
by Patrick WhitePublished: 01/10/2012
The novel that put Australian literature on the map is now in a Vintage Classic edition
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Flaws in the Glass
by Patrick WhitePublished: 01/07/2012
A self-portrait that is as brilliant original as White's fiction and drama.
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The Eye Of The Storm
by Patrick WhitePublished: 01/08/2011
A savage exploration of family relationships from the Nobel Prize-winning Patrick White
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The Twyborn Affair
by Patrick WhitePublished: 01/02/2011
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, a novel that satisfies as much as it challenges.
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A Fringe Of Leaves
by Patrick WhitePublished: 01/04/2010
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
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The Tree Of Man
by Patrick WhitePublished: 03/08/2009
One of Patrick White’s most loved novels in which he creates a memorable portrait of human resilience
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The Aunt's Story
by Patrick WhitePublished: 01/04/2008
From Australia's first Nobel Prize-winning author.
