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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4by Tarzan Legović, Rune Palerud, Guttorm Christensen, Regie Regpala, Patrick WhiteGet full text
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8by Ulugbek Nurmatov, Susan Buckingham, Marilyn Kendall, Scott A Murray, Patrick White, Aziz Sheikh, Hilary PinnockGet full text
Published 2012-01-01
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10by Timothy H. Harries, Victoria Rowland, Christopher J. Corrigan, Iain J. Marshall, Lucy McDonnell, Vibhore Prasad, Peter Schofield, David Armstrong, Patrick WhiteGet full text
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11by Benjamin W. Fischer‐Valuck, Brian C. Baumann, Anthony Apicelli, Yuan James Rao, Michael Roach, Mackenzie Daly, Maria C. Dans, Patrick White, Jessika Contreras, Lauren Henke, Hiram Gay, Jeff M. Michalski, Christopher AbrahamGet full text
Published 2018-09-01
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12by Ratna Sohanpal, Hilary Pinnock, Liz Steed, Karen Heslop Marshall, Claire Chan, Moira Kelly, Stefan Priebe, C. Michael Roberts, Sally Singh, Melanie Smuk, Sarah Saqi-Waseem, Andy Healey, Martin Underwood, Patrick White, Chris Warburton, Stephanie J. C. Taylor, On behalf of the TANDEM InvestigatorsGet full text
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13by Nick A Francis, David Gillespie, Patrick White, Janine Bates, Rachel Lowe, Bernadette Sewell, Rhiannon Phillips, Helen Stanton, Nigel Kirby, Mandy Wootton, Emma Thomas-Jones, Kerenza Hood, Carl Llor, Jochen Cals, Hasse Melbye, Gurudutt Naik, Micaela Gal, Deborah Fitzsimmons, Mohammed Fasihul Alam, Evgenia Riga, Ann Cochrane, Christopher C ButlerGet full text
Published 2020-03-01
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14by Janine Bates, Nick A. Francis, Patrick White, David Gillespie, Emma Thomas-Jones, Rachel Breen, Nigel Kirby, Kerry Hood, Micaela Gal, Rhiannon Phillips, Gurudutt Naik, Jochen Cals, Carl Llor, Hasse Melbye, Mandy Wootton, Evgenia Riga, Ann Cochrane, Robin Howe, Deborah Fitzsimmons, Bernadette Sewell, Mohammed Fasihul Alam, Christopher C. ButlerGet full text
Published 2017-09-01
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