Above all I was determined to prove that the Australian novel is not necessarily the dreary, dun-coloured offspring of journalistic realism.
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If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.
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Birth: | 28th May, 1912 |
Death: | 30th September, 1990 |
Nationality: | Australian |
Profession: | Novelist, Playwriter, Screenwriter, Writer |
Patrick White 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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