Critic Martin Thomas noted that critical and public interest in White had declined
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Patrick White
Patrick Victor Martindale White 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 pr…
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culture · Australian writer (1912–1990) · writer · novelist · playwright · poet · screenwriter · autobiographer · also Patrick White, Alex Xenophon Demirjian Gray, White
Born 28 May 1912 · Died 30 September 1990 · Q129187
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2024· 1 entry
2018· 1 entry
Novelist Christos Tsiolkas argued that White was an important figure in Australian literature who hadn't received enough attention in recent decades
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2011· 1 entry
Fred Schepisi's film adaptation of the novel The Eye of the Storm won The Age Critics Award for the best Australian feature at the Melbourne International Film Festival
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2010· 1 entry
White's novel The Vivisector was shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize for 1970
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2006· 2 entries
A hoaxer submitted a chapter of White's novel The Eye of the Storm to a dozen Australian publishers under the name Wraith Picket (an anagram of White's name)
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The National Library of Australia acquired a large quantity of White's manuscripts
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1990· 1 entry
Died 1990-09-30.
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1988· 1 entry
Which was the bicentenary of British settlement in Australia
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1985· 1 entry
Praising the novel Voss: "I cannot think when last a book so moved me
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1981· 3 entries
“s injunction to forgive. In 1969, however, he had affirmed the importance of religion in his work:”
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He once described himself as a "lapsed Anglican egotist agnostic pantheist occultist existentialist would-be though failed Christian Australian." White stated in 1981 that he did not call himself a Christian because he could not follow Christ's injunction to forgive.
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That he did not call himself a Christian because he could not follow Christ's injunction to forgive
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1977· 1 entry
A project to film Voss with Joseph Losey as director collapsed when the promoter Harry Miller failed to gain finance
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1976· 1 entry
White was working on a new novel, The Twyborn Affair, partly based on aspects of his own life and that of male Antarctic explorer Herbert Dyce-Murphy (1879–1971) who had lived as a woman for several years
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1975· 2 entries
But resigned in June 1976 in protest against the dismissal of the Whitlam government in November 1975 by the Governor-General Sir John Kerr and the subsequent reintroduction of knighthoods as part of the order
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With the prize money from his Nobel prize
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1973· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1973).
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Awarded Australian of the Year (1973).
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And is the only Australian to have been awarded it
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1972· 1 entry
The New South Wales government announced a plan to build an Olympic stadium near Centennial Park
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1971· 1 entry
After the prize was awarded to Pablo Neruda, he wrote to a friend: "That Nobel Prize
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1970· 2 entries
Nolan believed Duffield was based on him, but White denied this, stating that Duffield was a composite of his own character and the working life of the artists John Passmore and Godfrey Miller
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White had begun working on a new novel, The Eye of the Storm, about the meaning of his mother's death
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1969· 2 entries
However, he had affirmed the importance of religion in his work: "Religion
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When he joined protests against the Vietnam war and conscription of Australian troops for the conflict
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1966· 1 entry
White declined the Britannica Award for Literature and Miles Franklin Award for the novel and stated he no longer wanted his works considered for awards
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1963· 1 entry
White's mother died in London and his share of the estate allowed him to buy a house in Centennial Park, near the centre of Sydney, the following year
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1962· 1 entry
After it was rejected by the Adelaide Festival for obscenity
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1961· 2 entries
Awarded Miles Franklin Literary Award for Riders in the Chariot (1961).
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His novel Riders in the Chariot was published, and was his first to receive almost universal critical praise in Australia
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1958· 1 entry
"The Great Australian Emptiness"in which the mind is the least of possessions, in which the rich man is the important man, in which the schoolmaster and the journalist rule what intellectual roost there is, in which beau
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1957· 1 entry
Awarded Miles Franklin Literary Award for Voss (1957).
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1948· 1 entry
White returned to Australia, where he bought a small farm on the outskirts of Sydney
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1941· 2 entries
“the central mandala in my life”
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Met Manoly Lascaris, who became his life companion and, as White later wrote, "the central mandala in my life's hitherto messy design
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1937· 1 entry
His story "The Twitching Colonel" was published in the London Mercury
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1936· 1 entry
Met the Australian painter Roy de Maistre
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1935· 2 entries
His mother wanted him to embark on a diplomatic career but he was determined to stay in England and become a writer
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But received little critical attention and was later suppressed by White
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1924· 1 entry
The boarding school ran into financial trouble, and the headmaster suggested that White be sent to a public school in England
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1920· 1 entry
Attended Cranbrook School but his asthma worsened
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1916· 1 entry
Moved to a large house, "Lulworth", in Elizabeth Bay
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1912· 1 entry
Born 1912-05-28.
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