âPatrick White, the un-Australian writer who did more than any other writer in the twentieth century to create an imaginative language that we can call Australian, who unshackled us from the demand that we write as the English do, who recognised, through his own alienation and also through his profound love for his partner, that we were a migrant and mongrel nation forging our own culture and our own language.â\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \nChristos Tsiolkas spent a year of âdiscovery and rediscoveryâ reading Patrick White. In this passionate and original book, he shows how the Nobel Prize winnerâs work still speaks to us.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIn the Writers on Writers series, leading writers reflect on another Australian writer who has inspired and fascinated them. Provocative and crisp, these books start a fresh conversation between past and present, shed new light on the craft of writing, and introduce some intriguing and talented authors and their work.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003ci\u003eAlso in the Writers on Writers series\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nAlice Pung on John Marsden\u003cbr\u003e\nErik Jensen on Kate Jennings\u003cbr\u003e\nCeridwen Dovey on J. M. Coetzee (forthcoming)\u003cbr\u003e\nNam Le on David Malouf (forthcoming)\u003cbr\u003e\nMichelle de Kretser on Shirley Hazzard (forthcoming)
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