Patrick White

1912 - 1990 *

Australia's only Nobel Prize winner for Literature

Patrick White was born in England in 1912. At six months he was taken back to Australia where his father owned a sheep station. At the age of thirteen he was sent to school in England. He entered King's College in Cambridge when he was 17 and specialised in languages. After leaving the university he settled in London determined to become a writer. His first novel was published in 1939. In 1973 he was awarded the Nobel prize for Literature

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Gender and Class Oppositions in A Fringe of Leaves -- Investigates some of these contextual issues in White's A Fringe of Leaves.
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The First Chapter of A Fringe of Leaves -- a student essay discussing the function and significance of social prologue in the first chapter of White's A Fringe of Leaves
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Cultural Identities in A Fringe of Leaves -- an essay written by a student discussing the cultural identities and their oppositions in Patrick White's A Fringe of Leaves
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Mysteries in A Fringe of Leaves -- the unresolved mysteries and problems in Patrick White's novel A Fringe of Leaves
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