Patrick Victor Martindale White was an Australian writer who is widely regarded as one of the most important English-language novelists of the 20th century. From 1935 to 1987, he published twelve novels, three short-story collections, eight plays, and an autobiography. An unfinished novel titled, "The Hanging Garden" was published in 2012.
In 1973, he was awarded the Noble Prize in Literature. He won the Miles Franklin Award twice: in 1957 for Voss (1957), and in 1961 for Riders in the Chariot (1961).
