Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990) was an Australian writer who published 12 novels, three short-story collections, and eight plays, from 1935 to 1987. White's fiction employs humour, florid prose, shifting narrative vantage points and stream of consciousness techniques.

Works

Novels

Happy Valley (1939) The Living and the Dead (1941) The Aunt's Story (1948) The Tree of Man (1955) Voss (1957) Riders in the Chariot (1961) The Solid Mandala (1966) The Vivisector (1970) The Eye of the Storm (1973) A Fringe of Leaves (1976) The Twyborn Affair (1979) Memoirs of Many in One (1986) The Hanging Garden (2012) (Unfinished, posthumous)

Short story collections

The Burnt Ones (1964) The Cockatoos (1974) Three Uneasy Pieces (1987)

Poetry

Thirteen Poems / under the pseudonym Patrick Victor Martindale. – Sydney : Privately printed, (ca. 1929) The Ploughman and Other Poems. – Sydney : Beacon Press, (1935)

Plays

Bread and Butter Women (1935) Unpublished. The School for Friends (1935) Unpublished. Return to Abyssinia (1948) Unpublished. The Ham Funeral (1947) prem. Union Theatre, Adelaide, 1961. The Season at Sarsaparilla (1962) A Cheery Soul (1963) Night on Bald Mountain (1964) Big Toys (1977) Signal Driver: a Morality Play for the Times (1982) Netherwood (1983) Shepherd on the Rocks (1987)

Screenplay

The Night the Prowler (1978)

Autobiography

Flaws in the Glass (1981)

Awards

In 1973 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature,"for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature", as it says in the Swedish Academy's citation, the only Australian to have been awarded the prize. White was also the inaugural recipient of the Miles Franklin Award.