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Patrick White

1912 - 1990

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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 which 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, the only Australian to have been awarded the literary prize. Born in London to affluent Australian parents, White spent his childhood in Sydney and on his family's rural properties. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Patrick White is the 709th most popular writer (up from 952nd in 2019), the 658th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 730th in 2019) and the 70th most popular British Writer.

Patrick White was an Australian novelist and playwright. He is most famous for his novel "The Tree of Man," which won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973.

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Among writers, Patrick White ranks 709 out of 7,302. Before him are Stieg Larsson, Pavel Jozef Šafárik, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Georg Büchner, Multatuli, and Cassiodorus. After him are Abdulrazak Gurnah, Clarice Lispector, Odysseas Elytis, Epicharmus of Kos, William F. Buckley Jr., and John Irving.

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Among people born in 1912, Patrick White ranks 38. Before him are Sergiu Celibidache, Edward Mills Purcell, Tibor Sekelj, Leonid Kantorovich, Adolf Galland, and Juan Pujol García. After him are Julius Axelrod, Woody Guthrie, Karl Malden, Pierre Boulle, Herbert C. Brown, and Chien-Shiung Wu. Among people deceased in 1990, Patrick White ranks 23. Before him are Norbert Elias, Princess Sophie of Hohenberg, Ronald Evans, Ilya Frank, John Bowlby, and Robert Hofstadter. After him are Lê Đức Thọ, Miguel Muñoz, Sandro Pertini, Luigi Nono, Arthur Kennedy, and Keith Haring.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Patrick White ranks 658 out of 8,785. Before him are Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844), Peter J. Ratcliffe (1954), Matthew Lewis (1775), Henry Fox Talbot (1800), Benny Hill (1924), and Kate Winslet (1975). After him are George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1592), Gustav Holst (1874), Oliver Reed (1938), Hank Marvin (1941), Joshua Reynolds (1723), and James Wilson (1742).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Patrick White ranks 70. Before him are A. A. Milne (1882), Gerald Gardner (1884), Daphne du Maurier (1907), Walter Raleigh (1554), Muriel Spark (1918), and Matthew Lewis (1775). After him are Robert Burton (1577), Geoffrey of Monmouth (1090), John le Carré (1931), Edgar Wallace (1875), Aubrey Beardsley (1872), and William Beckford (1760).

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