Patrick Victor Martindale White was a British-born Australian writer who published 12 novels, three short-story collections, and eight plays, from 1935 to 1987.
White, c. 1940s
Lulworth, White's childhood home in Elizabeth Bay, Sydney
White's house in Castle Hill, Sydney
Patrick White's home Highbury, in Centennial Park, Sydney
1973 Nobel Prize in Literature
The 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Australian writer Patrick White (1912–1990) "for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature." He is the first and the only Australian recipient of the prize.
"for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature."