Patrick White

(1912-1990)

English-born Australian writer

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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.

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Born	Patrick Victor Martindale White 28 May 1912 Knightsbridge, London
Died	30 September 1990 (aged 78) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Zodiac	Gemini
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