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Date of Birth
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28-May-1912
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Place of Birth
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Knightsbridge
(United Kingdom)
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Nationality
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Australia, United Kingdom
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Also know as
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Patrick Victor Martindale White
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Profession
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Writer, Novelist, Essayist, Screenwriter, Playwright, Poet
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Patrick Victor Martindale White, AC was an English-born Australian writer who is widely regarded as one of the most important English-language novelists of the 20th century. From 1935 until his death, he published 12 novels, three short-story collections and eight plays.
White's fiction employs humour, florid prose, shifting narrative vantage points and a stream of consciousness technique. In 1973, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Australian to have been awarded the prize.
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