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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Patrick White has received more than 745,843 page views. His biography is available in 81 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). Patrick White is the 953rd most popular writer (up from 1,083rd in 2019), the 730th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 867th in 2019) and the 86th 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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  • 81

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.73

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  • 5.63

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Patrick White ranks 953 out of 7,302. Before him are L. Frank Baum, Alexandra David-Néel, Vātsyāyana, Virginia Satir, Andrew of Crete, and Johannes Tauler. After him are Sin Saimdang, Alfred Kubin, George Steiner, Panait Istrati, Al-Mutanabbi, and Ivan Gundulić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Patrick White ranks 50. Before him are Otto Ernst Remer, George Emil Palade, Julius Axelrod, Otto Kretschmer, Ghazi of Iraq, and Minoru Yamasaki. After him are Lev Gumilyov, Sonja Henie, Gordon Parks, Cornel Wilde, Don Siegel, and John Payne. Among people deceased in 1990, Patrick White ranks 34. Before him are Boris Shcherbina, Oldřich Nejedlý, Barbara Stanwyck, Bruno Kreisky, Sergio Corbucci, and Luigi Nono. After him are Meir Kahane, Robert Noyce, Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, Viktor Tsoi, Rex Harrison, and Princess Sophie of Hohenberg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Patrick White ranks 730 out of 8,785. Before him are Robert Grosseteste (1175), Catherine of Lancaster (1373), Mary Quant (1930), David Hockney (1937), Daniel Rutherford (1749), and Deborah Kerr (1921). After him are John of Salisbury (1110), Jude Law (1972), Alexander R. Todd (1907), James Mill (1773), Ronald Fisher (1890), and Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Patrick White ranks 86. Before him are Aubrey Beardsley (1872), Philip Pullman (1946), Ben Jonson (1572), Bruce Chatwin (1940), James May (1963), and Ann Radcliffe (1764). After him are Percy Fawcett (1867), H. Rider Haggard (1856), James Hadley Chase (1906), John Fowles (1926), Samuel Richardson (1689), and Henry Fielding (1707).

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