Author · Australia
Patrick White
Died in 1990
Patrick White was born on 28 May 1912 in Knightsbridge, London, into a family of Australian graziers. A pupil at Cheltenham College, he studied modern languages at Cambridge, then served during the war in British air force intelligence, in Egypt among other places, where he met Manoly Lascaris, the companion of his life. Settled with him at Castle Hill, near Sydney, then at Centennial Park, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973, the first Australian so honoured, without going to collect it. He died on 30 September 1990.
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- NovelThe VivisectorPatrick White · 1970Literature