Patrick White: 45 Years Since the Nobel Prize

10 December 2018 was the 45-year anniversary of Patrick White being awarded the Nobel Prize for ‘an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature.’ Below you’ll find a selection of White’s own writings from the pages of Meanjin curated to celebrate that anniversary, and discussions of his work by others.

Fiction

Fěte Galante

Patrick White

Volume 36 No 1, 1977

5 December 1977

A Social Occasion

Patrick White

Autumn 1965

7 January 1965

Being Kind to Titina

Patrick White

Autumn 1962

5 December 1962

The Death of Palfreyman

Patrick White

Spring 1957

1 September 1957

Essays

Peevish Paddy and Sir Neddy: Patrick White’s Nobel Prize

Sue Rabbitt Roff

7 December 2018

White’s Brown Woman

Denise Varney

Summer 2015

11 December 2015

Patrick White: A Centenary Tribute

Neil Armfield

Winter 2012

9 July 2012

Patrick White’s Tribute to the Whitlam Government

Patrick White

Vol. 33, No. 2, June 1974

1 June 1974

The Four Novels Of Patrick White

Marjorie Barnard

Winter 1956

6 December 1956

Poetry

Patrick White’s Briefcase

Marcelle Freiman

Winter 2017

19 June 2017

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