Patrick White

Patrick White
White, c. 1940s
Born	Patrick Victor Martindale White (1912-05-28)28 May 1912 Knightsbridge, London, UK
Died	30 September 1990(1990-09-30) (aged 78) Sydney, Australia
Language	English
Nationality	Australian
Alma mater	King's College, Cambridge
Period	1935–1987
Notable works	Selected works
Notable awards	Miles Franklin Award (1957, 1961) ALS Gold Medal (1941, 1955, 1965) Australian of the Year (1973) Nobel Prize in Literature (1973)
Partner	Manoly Lascaris (1941–2003)
Military career
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	Royal Air Force
Years of service	1940–1945
Battles/wars	World War II

Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990) was a British-born Australian writer who published 12 novels, three short-story collections, and eight plays, from 1935 to 1987.

White's fiction employs humour, florid prose, shifting narrative vantage points and stream of consciousness techniques. In 1973 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature,^[1] "for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature", as it says in the Swedish Academy's citation,^[2] the only Australian to have been awarded the prize.^{[note 1]} White was also the inaugural recipient of the Miles Franklin Award.

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