White, Patrick

Patrick White
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Name	White, Patrick Gender: M
Birthname	Patrick Victor Martindale White
born on	28 May 1912 at 11:00 (= 11:00 AM )
Place	London, England, 51n30, 0w10
Timezone	GMT h0e (is standard time)
Data source	From memory Rodden Rating A Collector: Rodden
Astrology data	06°43' 07°18 Asc. 02°12'

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Patrick White
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Biography

Australian noted family member born and educated in London. He tried life as a jackeroo in various NSW stations before returning to England for a degree in modern languages at Cambridge. During WW II, White served as an intelligence officer with the RAF and while based in Egypt, met his lifetime partner, Manoly Lascaris. Settled in Sydney and Melbourne, he wrote "Happy Valley," 1939 and more, up to "The Eye of the Storm," which won the Nobel Prize for Literature on 10/19/1973. On 6/18/1976, he handed back his Order of Australia in protest against the reintroduction of knighthoods and the continuation of Sir John Kerr as G-G. He died on 9/30/1990.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

• friend relationship with Fitzpatrick, Kate (born 1 October 1947)

• friend relationship with Sharman, Jim (born 12 March 1945)

• friend relationship with Whiteley, Brett (born 7 April 1939)

Events

• Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1939 (Released book)

• Work : Prize 19 October 1973 (Nobel Prize for literature)
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• Work : Prize 18 June 1976 (Refused the Order of Australia award)
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• Death, Cause unspecified 30 September 1990 (Age 78)
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Source Notes

Dennis Sutton quotes Susan Alexander from White, given in Sutton's 50 Australian charts, published 1996.

Sy Scholfield quotes David Marr's biography, "Patrick White: A Life" (J. Cape, 1991), p. 4: "In a Knightsbridge flat overlooking Hyde Park, their son was born at 11am on 28 May 1912."

Categories

• Family : Relationship : Cohabitation more than 3 yrs (Manoly Lascaris)

• Vocation : Military : Combat (WW II)

• Vocation : Military : Military service (Intelligence Officer)

• Vocation : Writers : Fiction

• Notable : Awards : Nobel prize (Literature)

• Notable : Awards : Vocational award (Refused the Order of Australia award)