biography
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White, Patrick (Victor Martindale)
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| lived:
| (1912–90)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in London, UK of Australian parents. His youth was spent partly in Australia, and partly in England, where he studied at Cambridge. His first novel, Happy Valley, appeared in 1939, and after service as an intelligence officer in World War 2 he returned to Australia, where he wrote several novels, short stories, and plays, achieving international success with The Tree of Man (1954), an epic of pioneer Australia, and Voss (1957), a novel on a similar scale. A poetic writer of great intensity and some wit, he wrote of great visionaries as well as the sordidness of the everyday. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. His autobiographical Flaws in the Glass was published in 1981, and he later became vocal on such issues as Aboriginal affairs and the environment. |
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