Patrick White

Also known as Alex Xenophon Demirjian Gray

English-born Australian writer

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Patrick White was an English-born Australian novelist and playwright who became one of Australia's most celebrated literary figures of the 20th century. He is significant for his influential contributions to Australian literature and culture, having won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 28 May 1912
Died: 30 September 1990
Works: 96

Top works

探险家沃斯
Zur Ruhe kam der Baum des Menschen nie
Le village CNN
Memoirs of Many in One
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Film & TV

Writing · Knightsbridge, London, England, UK

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: [Worldwide]
Active from: 1912
Active to: 1990

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 2,754
Total plays: 9,634

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 76,845x
Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 64,943x
RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 23,716x
The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 22,639x
Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,944x

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Quotes

“Conversation is imperative if gaps are to be filled, and old age, it is the last gap but one.”
“Loonies speak their own language, like educated people.”
“If she had only been able to touch him, they might perhaps have pooled their secrets and discovered the reason for human confusion. But as that wasn't possible, she went outside, into the garden.”
“In my books I have lifted bits from various religions in trying to come to a better understanding; I've made use of religious themes and symbols. Now, as the world becomes more pagan, one has to lead people in the same direction in a different way.”
“The essence of what you have to say you pick up before you're twenty.”
“I've lost interest in the theatre because you can't get what you want ever. I used to think it would be wonderful to see what you had written come to life. Here in Australia it's very hard to get an adequate performance because of the state of the theatre; but even if you have the best actors in the world it's never what you visualised. One can't say all one wants to say, one can't convey it.”

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Commons category: Patrick White
date of birth: 1912-05-28
date of death: 1990-09-29
birth name: Patrick Victor Martindale White
start of work period: 1935-00-00

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Article

Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990) was an Australian novelist and playwright who explored themes of religious experience, personal identity and the conflict between visionary individuals and a materialistic, conformist society. Influenced by the modernism of James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, he developed a complex literary style and a body of work that challenged the dominant realist prose tradition of his home country, was satirical of Australian society, and sharply divided local critics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973 and is the only Australian to have been awarded it.

Born in London to affluent Australian parents, White spent his childhood in Sydney and on his family's rural properties. He was sent to an English public school at the age of 13, and went on to read modern languages at Cambridge. After graduating in 1935 he embarked on a literary career. His first published novel, Happy Valley (1939), was awarded the Gold Medal of the Australian Literature Society. In World War II he served as an intelligence officer in the Royal Air Force. While stationed in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1941, he met Manoly Lascaris, who became his life companion and, as White later wrote, "the central mandala in my life's hitherto messy design."