Patrick White

Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 Mei 1912 – 30 September 1990) was 'n Australiese skrywer wat van 1935 tot 1987 twaalf romans, drie kortverhaalbundels en agt toneelstukke gepubliseer het.

White se prosa maak gebruik van humor, verskuiwende narratiewe waarnemingspunte en bewussynstroom tegnieke. In 1973 is hy bekroon met die Nobelprys vir Letterkunde, "vir 'n epiese en sielkundige vertelkuns wat 'n nuwe kontinent in die letterkunde ingebring het", soos per die Sweedse Akademie. Hy is die enigste Australiër wat tot op hede met die prys bekroon is (J. M. Coetzee het die toekenning in 2003 as 'n Suid-Afrikaanse burger gewen, voordat hy in 2006 'n Australiese burger geword het). White was ook die eerste ontvanger van die Miles Franklin-toekenning.

Lys van werke

Romans
Happy Valley (1939)
The Living and the Dead (1941)
The Aunt's Story (1948)
The Tree of Man (1955)
Voss (1957)
Riders in the Chariot (1961)
The Solid Mandala (1966)
The Vivisector (1970)
The Eye of the Storm (1973)
A Fringe of Leaves (1976)
The Twyborn Affair (1979)
Memoirs of Many in One (1986)
The Hanging Garden (2012) (Onvoltooid, postuum)

Kortverhaalbundels
The Burnt Ones (1964)
The Cockatoos (1974)
Three Uneasy Pieces (1987)

Poësie
Dertien Gedigte / onder die skuilnaam Patrick Victor Martindale. – Sydney : Privaat gedruk, (omstreeks 1929)
The Ploughman and Other Poems. – Sydney : Beacon Press, (1935)

Toneelstukke
Bread and Butter Women (1935) Ongepubliseer.
The School for Friends (1935) Ongepubliseer.
Return to Abyssinia (1948) Ongepubliseer.
The Ham Funeral (1947) prem. Union Theatre, Adelaide, 1961.
The Season at Sarsaparilla (1962)
A Cheery Soul (1963)
Night on Bald Mountain (1964)
Big Toys (1977)
Signal Driver: a Morality Play for the Times (1982)
Netherwood (1983)
Shepherd on the Rocks (1987)

Draaiboeke
 The Night the Prowler (1978)

'OutobiografieFlaws in the Glass (1981)

Verwysings

Verdere leesstofA Conversation with Patrick White, Australian Writers in Profile, Southerly, No.3 1973
Barry Argyle, Patrick White, Writers and Critics Series, Oliver and Boyd, Londen, 1967
Peter Beatson, The Eye in the Mandala, Patrick White: A Vision of Man and God, Barnes & Noble, Londen, 1976
John Docker, Patrick White and Romanticism: The Vivisector, Southerly, No.1, 1973
Simon During, Patrick White, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, VIC, 1996.
Michael Wilding, Studies in Classic Australian Fiction, Sydney Studies in Society and Culture, 16, 1997
Ian Henderson en Anouk Lang (reds.) Patrick White Beyond the Grave, Anthem Press, 2015
Helen Verity Hewitt, Patrick White and the Influence of the Visual Arts in his Work, Doktorale Proefskrif, Dept. van Engels, Universiteit van Melbourne, 1995.

Clayton Joyce (red.) Patrick White: A Tribute, Angus & Robertson, Harper Collins, North Ryde, 1991.
Brian Kiernan, Patrick White, Macmillan Commonwealth Writers Series, The Macmillan Press, Londen, 1980.
Alan Lawson (red.) Patrick White: Selected Writings, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1994
David Marr, Patrick White – A Life, Random House Australia, Sydney, 1991.
David Marr (red.), Patrick White Letters, Random House Australia, Sydney, 1994.
Irmtraud Petersson, ‘'New "Light" on Voss: The Significance of its Title, World Literature Written in English 28.2 (Herfs 1988) 245-59.
Laurence Steven, Dissociation and Wholeness in Patrick White's Fiction, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Ontario, 1989.
Elizabeth McMahon, Brigitta Olubas. Remembering Patrick White : contemporary critical essays, Rodopi, Amsterdam, New York, 2010.
Denise Varney, Patrick White's Theatre: Australian Modernism on Stage, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 2021.
Patrick White, Patrick White Speaks, Primavera Press, Sydney, Publisher Paul Brennan, 1989.
Stephen Michael Sasse, Companion notes to the Aunt's story by Patrick White, WriteLight, 2012.
Cynthia Vanden Drissen, Writing the nation : Patrick White and the indigene, Rodopi, Amsterdam, New York, 2009.
William Yang, Patrick White: The Late Years, PanMacmillan Australia, 1995

Eksterne skakels

Patrick White – Existential Explorer—essay deur Karin Hansson op die amptelike webwerf van die Nobelprys.
Why Bother With Patrick White?—uittreksels uit White se romans, sowel as 'n reeks kritiese interpretasies van sy werke en persoonlike herinneringe aan White.
Patrick White reappraised uit die Times Literary Supplement
pers vrystelling van die Nasionale Biblioteek van Australië betreffende die verkryging van 'n aansienlike versameling van White se persoonlike dokumente en manuskripte.
aanlyn katalogus van die dokumente en manuskripte wat deur die biblioteek verkry is.
Gedetailleerde ontleding van White se roman Voss, deur Len Webster.
Patrick White op Trove
"Autobiography", Nobel prize

Geboortes in 1912
Sterftes in 1990
Australiese skrywers