2021-05-28 Fri

Patrick White was an Australian novelist and playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. He published 12 novels, three short-story collections, and eight plays, from 1935 to 1987.

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

White’s first novel, Happy Valley (1939), was set in New South Wales and showed the influence of D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy. The material of White’s later novels is distinctly Australian, but his treatment of it has a largeness of vision not limited to any one country or period.

To honor him Australia Postal Department has issued a stamp of value 60 Australian Cent in 2012.

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