"the Mint of Norway since 1902, are registered trademarks of the Nobel Foundation. Each medal feature an image of Alfred Nobel in left profile on the obverse (front side of the medal). The Nobel Prize medals for Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature have identical obverses, showing the image of Alfred Nobel and the years of his birth and death (1833–1896). Nobel's portrait also appears on the obverse of the Nobel Peace Prize medal and the Medal for the Prize in Economics, but with a slightly different design. The image on the reverse of a medal varies according to"
"of the Nobel Prize for literature. Patrick White was remarkable not only for his international recognition, but for his originality for the time in his portrayal and pride in the Australian way of life, Australian landscape and Australian history that in the words of the Nobel Prize citation introduced a ""new continent"" to world literature, as well as a new perspective on national identity for many Australians. The house, interiors and gardens provide a rare and remarkably intact record of the writing environment, lifestyle, inspiration, tastes, activities and interests of Patrick White at the peak of his career from 1964"
"The Tree of Man The Tree of Man is the fourth published novel by the Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick White. It is a domestic drama chronicling the lives of the Parker family and their changing fortunes over many decades. It is steeped in Australian folklore and cultural myth, and is recognised as the author's attempt to infuse the idiosyncratic way of life in the remote Australian bush with some sense of the cultural traditions and ideologies that the epic history of Western civilisation has bequeathed to Australian society in general. ""When we came to live [in Castle"
"Wales's history. 20 Martin Road is of outstanding significance for its association with the internationally acclaimed Australian author, Patrick White, who is widely regarded as Australia's most famous author. The house, interiors and gardens provide an exceptional record of the writing environment, inspiration, lifestyle, tastes, activities and interests of Patrick White at the peak of his career from 1964 until his death in 1990. Patrick White remains the first and only Australian to have been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, the highest international literary accolade. White was the first Australian author to be studied in overseas universities, his works"
"the tragedy of humanity."" In the ""Times"" one day later, Orville Prescott called it ""the finest novel I have read so far in 1955, a majestic and impressive work of genuine art that digs more deeply into the universal experience of human living than all save a few great books."" The Tree of Man The Tree of Man is the fourth published novel by the Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick White. It is a domestic drama chronicling the lives of the Parker family and their changing fortunes over many decades. It is steeped in Australian folklore and cultural"
"Martin Road is valued by Australian and international contemporary communities for its association with the leading Australian author, Patrick White. The property is also highly valued by literary and wider communities for its direct connection to many of his acclaimed later works, as the place from where they originated, and in some cases the place where themes, events and scenes were inspired. The value for Patrick White and his works has been well recorded, as the only Australian to have been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, the highest international literary accolade. Patrick White and his works have inspired many"
"Patrick White was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the only Australian to have achieved this; he is recognised as one of the great English-language writers of the twentieth century. Australian English is a major variety of the language; its grammar and spelling are largely based on those of British English, overlaid with a rich vernacular of unique lexical items and phrases, some of which have found their way into standard English. Contemporary Papua New Guinean art is notable for its wood carving, drawing and painting. Famous visual artists include Mathias Kauage, Timothy Akis and Larry Santana. Papua New Guinea"
"always find it irritating that only six Australians seem to have liked it."" The Aunt's Story The Aunt's Story is the third published novel by the Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick White. It tells the story of Theodora Goodman, a lonely middle-aged woman who travels to France after the death of her mother, and then to America, where she experiences what is either a gradual mental breakdown or an epiphanic revelation. Although the novel was shunned by critics and the reading public upon its initial publication in 1948, White himself expressed a personal fondness for it: ""It is"
"new park, also to be known as Centennial Park. The government specified that certain types of buildings could not be built, for example, terraced houses, to raise the standard of housing in the new suburb. Large detached homes like ""Highbury"" became the norm in the area. Kerr lived in the house until his death in 1954, after which it was acquired by the electrical contractor, Frederick Angles. In 1964 the property was transferred to Patrick White. Patrick White (1912-1990) is regarded as Australia's most famous writer. He is the only Australian to have been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature"
"The Solid Mandala The Solid Mandala, the seventh published novel by Australian author Patrick White, Nobel Prize winner of 1973, first published in 1966. It details the story of two brothers, Waldo and Arthur Brown, with a focus on the facets of their symbiotic relationship. It is set in White's fictional suburb of Sarsaparilla, a setting he often employed in his other books, such as with ""Riders in the Chariot"". The book is typical of White's writing style, and is slow-paced, with little considerable action, instead focusing upon the inner turmoils of the aforementioned characters. The book is split into"
"me to rank beside it."" Francis King in The Sunday Telegraph said, ""I am increasingly convinced that he is one of the five novelists at present at work in our language who is truly possessed of greatness."" The Solid Mandala The Solid Mandala, the seventh published novel by Australian author Patrick White, Nobel Prize winner of 1973, first published in 1966. It details the story of two brothers, Waldo and Arthur Brown, with a focus on the facets of their symbiotic relationship. It is set in White's fictional suburb of Sarsaparilla, a setting he often employed in his other books,"
"A Fringe of Leaves A Fringe of Leaves is the tenth published novel by the Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick White. A young Cornish woman, Mrs Ellen Roxburgh, travels to the Australian colonies in the early 1830s with her much older husband, Austin, to visit Austin's brother Garnet Roxburgh. After witnessing the brutalities of Van Diemens Land, the Roxburghs embark on their return trip to England on ""The Bristol Maid"". However, the ship runs aground on the coral reef off Fraser Island on the coast of what is now Queensland. Ellen is the only survivor from the leaky"
"non-fiction works including histories and criticisms, such as their well-regarded ""Essays in Australian Fiction"" (1938). This book contained essays on Henry Handel Richardson, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Leonard Mann, Martin Boyd (under his pseudonym Martin Mills), Christina Stead and Eleanor Dark. Their final collaborative novel was ""Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"". It was published in 1945 as ""Tomorrow and Tomorrow"". It is considered to be one of Australia's major early science fiction novels and was highly regarded by Australia's only Nobel Prize winner for literature, Patrick White. However, it was censored for political reasons at the time and was not published"
"The Eye of the Storm (novel) The Eye of the Storm is the ninth published novel by the Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick White. It tells the story of Elizabeth Hunter, the powerful matriarch of her family, who still maintains a destructive iron grip on those who come to say farewell to her in her final moments upon her deathbed. It is regarded as one of White's best novels, largely owing to the reputation it received from the Swedish Academy when they specifically named it as the book that confirmed White's designation as a Literature Laureate. A film"
"thought that a reactionary Establishment was being beaten on its own ground, that the evening was going to be a triumph of the imagination over mediocrity. So it was."" White’s next two plays, ""The Season at Sarsaparilla"" (1962) and ""Night On Bald Mountain"" (1964), were also performed by the Guild in the wake of ""The Ham Funeral’s"" success. In 1973, White became the only laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature to receive the prize while an Australian citizen. In 2009, ""The Season at Sarsaparilla"" was performed by the Sydney Theatre Company; ironically, in 2012, the State Theatre Company performed"
"The Aunt's Story The Aunt's Story is the third published novel by the Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick White. It tells the story of Theodora Goodman, a lonely middle-aged woman who travels to France after the death of her mother, and then to America, where she experiences what is either a gradual mental breakdown or an epiphanic revelation. Although the novel was shunned by critics and the reading public upon its initial publication in 1948, White himself expressed a personal fondness for it: ""It is the one I have most affection for,"" he wrote in 1959, ""and I"
"are widely studied in schools and universities worldwide, and have been the subject of numerous PhD theses not only in Australia, but also in countries such as India, China, Finland, Sweden, the USA and Canada. More books and articles have been published on White than any other Australian author. White was also the first Australian author to be admitted to the canon of world literature. Patrick White chose the house and the neighbourhood very carefully for the purpose of his writing in 1964, at which time he wrote to his publisher ""I hope to take root in this new house...It"
"winning author Patrick White His most recent work, The Trouble With Harry, about the criminal trial of an Australian trans man in the 1920s, opened at the 2014 Melbourne Festival. Writing for The Australian newspaper, journalist Chris Boyd compared Philpott's writing to that of Patrick White, and praised Philpott's ""poetic ear and alien eye"": An advocate for the Australian writing professionals, coverage and debate over Philpott's call for greater emphasis on Australian-written content on Australian theatre stages has appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald and his suggestion on a five-year-ban on any further productions of Shakespeare to allow for more"
"Island and Eliza Fraser. A Fringe of Leaves A Fringe of Leaves is the tenth published novel by the Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick White. A young Cornish woman, Mrs Ellen Roxburgh, travels to the Australian colonies in the early 1830s with her much older husband, Austin, to visit Austin's brother Garnet Roxburgh. After witnessing the brutalities of Van Diemens Land, the Roxburghs embark on their return trip to England on ""The Bristol Maid"". However, the ship runs aground on the coral reef off Fraser Island on the coast of what is now Queensland. Ellen is the only"
"theatrical success—including ""The Season at Sarsaparilla"". White followed ""The Tree of Man"" with ""Voss"", which became the first winner of the Miles Franklin Award. A subsequent novel, ""Riders in the Chariot"" also received a Miles Franklin award—but White later refused to permit his novels to be entered for literary prizes. He turned down a knighthood, and various literary awards—but in 1973 accepted the Nobel prize. David Marr wrote of biography of White in 1991. J. M. Coetzee, who was born in South Africa and was resident there when awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003, now lives in Adelaide,"
"postgraduate theses, critical essays, monographs and published tributes. Patrick White became the first Australian author to be admitted to the canon of world literature. His works are also highly valued for their portrayal of Australian landscape, way of life and history, and have been attributed with the inspiration for other successful Australian authors, such as Judith Wright, Nicholas Haslack, Glen Tomasetti, Finola Moorhead and Humphrey McQueen. A view repeated by many is how White's vision of Australia taught them to see the country in a new way, and often, to find a new love for it. His work testifies to"
"""for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature"". White's first novel, ""Happy Valley"" (1939) was inspired by the landscape and his work as a jackaroo on the land at Adaminaby in the Snowy Mountains, but became an international success and won the Australian Literary Society's Gold Medal. Born to a conservative, wealthy Anglo-Australian family, he later wrote of conviction in left-wing causes and lived as a homosexual. Never destined for life on the land, he enrolled at Cambridge where he became a published poet. White developed as a novelist, but also had major"
"Rumblings"" and ""Jungle Doctor Meets Mongoose"". Some of the Jungle Doctor stories were released on record in the 1960s, with White himself narrating them. As well as pioneering Christian media in the form of both radio and television in Australia, White was active in student evangelism and is credited with revitalising evangelical Christian student groups in Australia after World War II. He became general secretary of the Intervarsity Fellowship in 1943. White also continued to practice medicine on a part-time basis right up until his death. White died on 21 December 1992, aged 82. He is buried at St. Simon"
"works of Australian artists – including Indigenous as well as Anglo-Celtic and multicultural migrant Australians – has, since 1788, introduced the character of a new continent to the global arts scene – exploring such themes as Aboriginality, Australian landscape, migrant and national identity, distance from other Western nations and proximity to Asia, the complexities of urban living and the ""beauty and the terror"" of life in the Australian bush. Notable Australian writers have included the Nobel laureate Patrick White, the novelists Colleen McCullough and Henry Handel Richardson and the bush poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson. Leading Australian performing artists"
"Leighton Medal (2005) and the AONSA Prize (2015). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and Australian Academy of Science. He was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001. and appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2016. John White (chemist) John William White is currently Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Research School of Chemistry, at the Australian National University. He is a past president, Royal Australian Chemical Institute and president of Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering. He has held the Argonne Fellowship (U. of Chicago) and was for many years a Fellow of St"
"at the age of 91, oblivious to the closing of a great circle that had come to embrace Scone and Smyrna, Sydney and Alexandria, the Whites and the Lascaris ... Highbury was later given a state government heritage listing because of its association with Patrick White. Lascaris was considered in many ways the gentle and urbane face with the prickly and difficult White. David Marr credits Lascaris with being the driving force who kept White to his literary labours, including the string of novels that won White the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. White referred to Lascaris as ""the"
"wa Thiong'o who has written novels, plays and short stories in English. Poet Derek Walcott, from Saint Lucia in the Caribbean, was another Nobel Prize winner in 1992. An Australian Patrick White, a major novelist in this period, whose first work was published in 1939, won in 1973. Other noteworthy Australian writers at the end of this period are poet Les Murray, and novelist Peter Carey, who is one of only four writers to have won the Booker Prize twice. Due to their shared constitutional histories, several countries in the Commonwealth have similar legal and political systems. The Commonwealth requires"
"cultural or natural history in New South Wales. As the home and writing environment for 26 years of Patrick White, the house and grounds of 20 Martin Road represents a site of major creative accomplishment in the history of Australian literature, which fostered the greatest ever international recognition for an Australian author to date, together with the development of the Australian literary industry and national identity during the 20th Century. No Australian writer has received the level of international recognition of Patrick White, before or after his time. Interest in and the status of Australian literature grew in parallel with"
"was shifted from the bush archetype to a more urban, inner-city setting: William Lane's ""The Working Man's Paradise"" (1892), Christina Stead's ""Seven Poor Men of Sydney"" (1934) and Ruth Park's ""The Harp in the South"" (1948) all depicted the harsh, gritty reality of working class Sydney. Patrick White's novels ""Tree of Man"" (1955) and ""Voss"" (1957) fared particularly well and in 1973 White was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. A new kind of literary realism emerged in the late twentieth century, helmed by Helen Garner's ""Monkey Grip"" (1977) which revolutionised contemporary fiction in Australia, though it has since emerged"
"even without her deceased lover. At the station, Elyot does not expect to ever see her again, and thus the reader understands the full significance of the opening chapter's sterility. ""The Living and the Dead"" raises deep questions about life, death and those in between. Patrick White won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973, however, ""The Living and the Dead"" is not usually included amongst his better-known works. ""1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"" lists two Patrick White novels: ""The Living and the Dead"" and ""Voss"". Events of the early 20th century figure prominently in ""The Living"
"The Hanging Garden (White novel) The Hanging Garden is an unfinished novel by Australian author and Nobel Prize winner Patrick White. The novel was published on April 2, 2012 by Random House Australia. The published edition of the novel is estimated to be about a third of what the ultimate length of the finished product would have been and was discovered on White's desk after his death. The novel was left largely unfinished, with the book initially planned to have three parts. The first part, the only part that White had completed, centers around Eirene Sklavos and Gilbert Horsfall, two"
"John White (chemist) John William White is currently Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Research School of Chemistry, at the Australian National University. He is a past president, Royal Australian Chemical Institute and president of Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering. He has held the Argonne Fellowship (U. of Chicago) and was for many years a Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford. Between 1975 and 1981 he was director of the Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France. He is a founder member of the International Society for Science and Religion White and his team have developed a simple method to produce"
"Spencer Smith-White Spencer Smith-White (14 April 1909 – 26 March 1998) was an Australian botanist, winner of the Clarke Medal in 1967. Smith-White was born in Sydney and studied at the University of Sydney, obtaining B.Sc.Agr. in 1932 and D.Sc.Agr. in 1956. In 1934, Smith-White was science master at Scotch College, Adelaide; from 1935 to 1936 he was a plant breeder with the New South Wales Department of Agriculture, then for eleven years from 1937 he was research officer and botanist with the Museum of Applied Science, Sydney. In 1948 Smith-White started as a lecturer with the University of Sydney,"