Patrick White
1912 – 1990 · Australia · Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1973
Voss and the interior epic of the Australian continent.
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- J. M. Coetzee
1940 · Literature
White's austere settler-colonial moral novel precedes Coetzee's.
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