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Patrick White

Born

in Knightsbridge, London, England, The United Kingdom

May 28, 1912

Died

September 30, 1990

Website

http://www.patrickwhitecatalogue.com

Genre

Fiction, Historical Fiction

Influences

James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, George Moore ...more

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Patrick Victor Martindale White was an Australian author widely regarded as one of the major English-language novelists of the 20th century, and winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Born in England while his Australian parents were visiting family, White grew up in Sydney before studying at Cambridge. Publishing his first two novels to critical acclaim in the UK, White then enlisted to serve in World War II, where he met his lifelong partner, the Greek Manoly Lascaris. The pair returned to Australia after the war.

Home again, White published a total of twelve novels, two short story collections, eight plays, as well as a There is more than one author by this name on Goodreads. For the Canadian Poet Laureate see "Patrick^^^^^White".

Patrick Victor Martindale White was an Australian author widely regarded as one of the major English-language novelists of the 20th century, and winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Born in England while his Australian parents were visiting family, White grew up in Sydney before studying at Cambridge. Publishing his first two novels to critical acclaim in the UK, White then enlisted to serve in World War II, where he met his lifelong partner, the Greek Manoly Lascaris. The pair returned to Australia after the war.

Home again, White published a total of twelve novels, two short story collections, eight plays, as well as a miscellany of non-fiction. His fiction freely employs shifting narrative vantages and the stream of consciousness technique. In 1973, he was awarded the Nobel Prize "for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature."

From 1947 to 1964, White and Lascaris lived a retired life on the outer fringes of Sydney. However after their subsequent move to the inner suburb of Centennial Park, White experienced an increased passion for activism. He became known as an outspoken champion for the disadvantaged, for Indigenous rights, and for the teaching and promotion of art, in a culture he deemed often backward and conservative. In their personal life, White and Lascaris' home became a regular haunt for noted figures from all levels of society.

Although he achieved a great deal of critical applause, and was hailed as a national hero after his Nobel win, White retained a challenged relationship with the Australian public and ordinary readers. In his final decades the books sold well in paperback, but he retained a reputation as difficult, dense, and sometimes inscrutable.

Following White's death in 1990, his reputation was briefly buoyed by David Marr's well-received biography, although he disappeared off most university and school syllabuses, with his novels mostly out of print, by the end of the century. Interest in White's books was revived around 2012, the year of his centenary, with all now available again.

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Average rating: 3.81 · 13,693 ratings · 1,615 reviews · 89 distinct works • Similar authors

	Voss 3.79 avg rating — 3,734 ratings — published 1957 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tree of Man 3.96 avg rating — 2,306 ratings — published 1955 — 79 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vivisector 4.04 avg rating — 1,212 ratings — published 1970 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White, David Malouf (Introduction) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,044 ratings — published 1961 — 65 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Fringe of Leaves 3.66 avg rating — 958 ratings — published 1976 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Eye of the Storm 3.75 avg rating — 734 ratings — published 1973 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Twyborn Affair 3.97 avg rating — 624 ratings — published 1979 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Solid Mandala really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 577 ratings — published 1966 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hanging Garden 3.32 avg rating — 469 ratings — published 2012 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Happy Valley 3.73 avg rating — 253 ratings — published 1939 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“كانت في أسعد حالاتها وهي منغلقة الى ذاتها بأفكارها، وكان هذا قوام صلابتها”
― Patrick White, فوس

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“من الواضح أن الصحاري تُفضل أن تُقاوم التاريخ وأن تُطور سطوره”
― Patrick White, فوس

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“العظماء يستثنون من الواجبات البديهية”
― Patrick White, فوس

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4th Quarter (October - December 2026) Long Read Poll

The World According to Garp by John Irving, 1978, 610 pages

39 votes, 22.4%

The Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen: 127 Fairy Tales in one volume, 1850, 803 pages

36 votes, 20.7%

The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir, 1992, 643 pages

33 votes, 19.0%

The Agony And The Ecstacy by Irving Stone, 1961, 776 pages

16 votes, 9.2%

John Adams by David McCullough, 2001, 751 pages

14 votes, 8.0%

Man and Wife Novel by Wilkie Collins 1870 (First Edition): Annotated, 1870, 652 pages

14 votes, 8.0%

He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope, 1869, 952 pages

13 votes, 7.5%

The Vivisector by Patrick White, 1970, 617 pages

9 votes, 5.2%

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