Entry type: Person |
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Occupation
Novelist, Writer, Writer of Inscription
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Gender
Male
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Birth Date
28th May 1912
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Death Date
30th September 1990
Copy specific notes
Patrick Victor White was a novelist and poet. Born in 1912, in 1973 he became the first Australian to win the Nobel prize for literature. He died in 1990.
Source
Webby, Elizabeth. White, Patrick Victor (1912-1990), Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Published in hard copy 2012, accessed online 5 July 2013.
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