Riders in the Chariot

Patrick Victor Martindale White (1912–1990) was an Australian novelist and playwright, born in London to Australian parents, who spent much of his childhood in Sydney and later studied at Cambridge. Influenced by modernist writers like Joyce, Lawrence, and Woolf, he developed a challenging literary style exploring themes of religion, identity, and outsider status, gaining international acclaim with novels like The Tree of Man (1955) and Voss (1957). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973, the only Australian to receive it, for his epic and psychological narrative art that introduced a new continent into literature.