Patrick White Catalogue

Website cataloguing the life and works of Australia's only Nobel Laureate for Literature. (I'm @TheCardiganKid)

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“A country is only remembered for its art. Rome is remembered for Virgil, Greece for Homer, and Australia may be remembered for Patrick White.”
-- Anthony Burgess

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@NathanHobby Tantalising in the extreme!

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A gem from @NathanHobby’s bonzer bio of Katharine Susannah Prichard. As she hardened her politics in old age, KSP did not approve of Patrick White…
“Lost in the fog of their own delusions” indeed!
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@anzlitlovers I suppose as a former vice-chair of the Republican Movement, she makes sense as a White acolyte!

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To the best of our knowledge, @MarisePayne is the only Australian Federal politician to quote Patrick White in their maiden speech. And what a quote it is!
See more White references on our Hansard page: https://t.co/XAx5SSZ63t
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Pamela Rabe and Tyler Coppin in STC’s landmark 1989 production of Patrick White’s “The Ham Funeral”. Coppin’s wide-eyed, slightly fey lead performance was disdained by some critics - White (rightly) gave a characteristically forceful rebuke!
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@LeonoraOT Great quote! It amazes me that what Patrick was saying 40 years ago still sounds radical to some ears!

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Gorgeous melodrama in this 1948 review by Vernon Young (for @TheHudsonReview) of Patrick White's "The Aunt's Story":
"[O]ne has the bizarre impression of...dancing with a partner who, though supple in every manipulated rhythm, is in reality a beautiful corpse."
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[Patrick White Catalogue @HamFuneral]

Of course, they weren't all great... the SA Advertiser found Happy Valley "almost unreadable...incoherent...revolting".
You don't often find that level of passion in Aussie book reviews these days!
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"Happy Valley is not a book for those who think writers should work in collaboration with the Tourist Bureau..."
Patrick White liked to complain that Australian reviewers hated his early novels, but many didn't. Here's a laudatory excerpt from the Bulletin's Red Page, 19/4/1939.

[Jeanette Sobey @yebosfaye]

The Misses Patricia and
Ethel White (portrait of
Patrick White and pug dog)
1964

Artist
Desmond Digby
New Zealand, Australia
1933 - 15 Apr 2015

Acrylic on paperboard

17.7 x 22.50 cm board
33.7 x 36.7 x 3.0 cm frame

Art Gallery of NSW

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Rarely seen headshot of Patrick White, featured in "Home: an Australian Quarterly", May 1938. Very much the trending style of the era!

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Nobel prize winner-to-be Patrick White defends 'Portnoy's Complaint'. Philip Roth's novel was banned in Australia upon publication in 1969
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One of my favourite Patrick White covers. Sidney Nolan's paintings for "The Burnt Ones" (1964).

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@MegBrayshaw Late on the bandwagon to say "Cool-ah-my", all the way!

[Patrick White Catalogue @HamFuneral]

"None of the great truths can be more than half-grasped.”
- Patrick White

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“I think one really has to be a bitch and a gossip to succeed at fiction.”
- Patrick White

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"Hilda tried not to see this, or would not, was afraid to see. She built herself a raft of superficialities and floated down the stream."
-Patrick White, #HappyValley

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[Patrick White Catalogue @HamFuneral]

@WritersCentreAU "I say we have a bitter heritage, but that is not to run it down."
-- Randolph Stow, 'Tourmaline'

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Patrick White aged 16, at school in Mt Wilson in the Blue Mountains.

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