caption death_date death_place birth_name birth_place influences imagesize nationality birth_date language period image article_title education name partner occupation alma_mater
white in sydney , 1973 30 september 1990 sydney , new south wales , australia patrick victor martindale white knightsbridge , london , england d. h. lawrence , johann wolfgang von goethe 250px british australian 28 may 1912 english 1935 -- 87 patrick white 1973.jpg patrick white
 bachelor of arts patrick white manoly lascaris -lrb- 1912 -- 2003 -rrb- novelist essayist , playwright , poet , short-story writer , university of cambridge
patrick white

patrick victor martindale white -lrb- 28 may 191230 september 1990 -rrb- was an australian writer who is widely regarded as one of the most important english-language novelists of the 20th century .
from 1935 until his death , he published 12 novels , three short-story collections and eight plays .
white 's fiction employs humour , florid prose , shifting narrative vantage points and a stream of consciousness technique .
in 1973 , he was awarded the nobel prize in literature , the first australian to have been awarded the prize .
