What is Patrick White?
{{Infobox writer | name = Patrick White | image = Patrick White 1973.jpg| imagesize = | alt = | caption = Patrick White in 1973 | birth_name = Patrick Victor Martindale White | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1912|05|28}} | birth_place = [[Knightsbridge]], [[London]], England | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1990|09|30|1912|05|28}} | death_place = [[Sydney]], Australia | occupation = Novelist, playwright, poet, short-story writer, essayist | language = English | nationality = Australian | education = Bachelor of Arts | alma_mater = [[Cambridge University]] | period = 1935–87 | genre = [[High modernism]] | awards = {{awd|[[Miles Franklin Award|Miles Franklin Literary Award]]|1957|[[Voss (novel)|Voss]]|||year2=1961|title2=[[Riders in the Chariot]]|role2=}} {{awd|[[Australian of the Year|Australian of the Year Award]]|1973|||}} {{awd|[[Nobel Prize in Literature]]|1973||}} | signature = | partner = [[Manoly Lascaris]] (1912–2003) | website = }} '''Patrick Victor Martindale White''' (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990), was an [[Australia]]n author. He is an important English-language novelist of the 20th century. From 1935 until his death, he published 12 novels, two short-story collections and eight plays. White's fiction uses humour, [[ornate]] prose, shifting [[Point of view (literature)|narrative vantage points]] and a [[stream of consciousness technique]]. In 1973, he got the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]. He was the only Australian citizen<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.whitehat.com.au/australia/people/NobelPrize.asp |title=Australian Nobel Prize Winners |publisher=Whitehat.com.au |date=2 December 2006 |accessdate=1 September 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=6 March 2006|title=JM Coetzee becomes an Australian citizen|work=[[Mail & Guardian]]|url=http://mg.co.za/article/2006-03-06-jm-coetzee-becomes-an-australian-citizen|accessdate=31 August 2011}}</ref> with the prize until the [[South Africa]]n-born [[J. M. Coetzee]]