6/4/2023 0 Comments Voss patrick white review![]() ![]() But if you say to some young literary person “Patrick White”, they’ve not heard of him.’ ‘Whenever he finished a book, he wanted me alone to come out to Sydney, where he lived, and I would go to my hotel and read the manuscript and have dinner with him, and that became a ritual. But the writer who had impressed him, whom he admired possibly ahead of the others that he had published, was the Australian novelist Patrick White. His favourite writer was García Márquez – ‘without question’. ![]() I was intrigued to know which out of all his authors had most impressed the 85-year-old. At Jonathan Cape, Maschler had been responsible for introducing to British readers some of the best known writers of the post-war era, from Gabriel García Márquez to Jeffrey Archer (‘I discovered him believe it or not’), by way of Joseph Heller, Salman Rushdie, Bruce Chatwin, Ian McEwan and Julian Barnes. In June of 2019, a year before he died, I went and talked to the veteran publisher Tom Maschler about his favourite authors. ![]()
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