Swedish booklet honoring Nobel Laureates in Literature

                                        Issued November 21, 1985

In the spring of 1941, at the outbreak of World War II, Australian author
Patrick White, an Intelligence Officer of the British Royal Air Force, and
Manoly Lascars, a Greek national soon to be called to serve in the Royal
Greek Army, met at a tea party in Alexandria, Egypt. They became lovers.
They were 29 at the time, and were to spend 50 happy years together.

Patrick White’s novels brought him international fame. He had been a
contender for the Nobel Prize for literature on several occasions, and won
this prestigious award for The Eye of The Storm in 1973. However this
put the Swedish Academy in a quandary. How was the Academy to
address the invitation to Patrick White and his lover, Manoly Lascars?
What would be a judicious phrase that wouldn’t be offensive to the author?
‘To You and Your Family’ was chosen.