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(a.k.a.
Patrick Victor Martindale White
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Also writes as: Gray, Alex Xenophon Demirjian (1 work)
Born: 28 May 1912 London, England
Died: 30 Sep 1990 Sydney, New South Wales
Gender: Male
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Full biographical information is only available to AustLit Subscribers. A truncated and unformatted biographical extract follows: Patrick White is the first Australian writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (1973). He was born into a wealthy Australian grazing family with strong ties to England, and received his school education partly in Australia, partly at Cheltenham College, England. He then lived a few years in Australia, working as a jackaroo and preparing for university. At King's College, Cambridge, he studied French and German languages and literatures (1932-1935) and spent considerable time in France an....To gain full access to the AustLit database become a subscriber. |
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Last amended:
16 Oct 2008