Our Australia: Patrick White

The Australian writer Patrick White has been awarded the 1973 Nobel Literature Prize "for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature", as it says in the Swedish Academy's citation. His writing style used humour, colourful prose, shifting narrative voices and a stream of consciousness techniques. Patrick White, for the first time, has given the continent of Australia an authentic voice that carries across the world, at the same time as his achievement contributes to the development, both artistic and about ideas of contemporary literature. Remadevi Dhanasekar explains the contributions of Patrick White in “Namma Australia”.