Tim Winton Biography
Tim Winton, who grew up on the coast of Western Australia, has been
called the best-loved Australian novelist of his generation. In 1982, his
first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian/Vogel National
Literary Award, and he has been a full-time writer ever since. Winton has
won Australia's most prestigious literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary
Award, on three occasions, and The Riders and Dirt Music were
both nominated for the coveted Booker Prize. In addition to receiving
accolades for his children's stories, a number of Winton's fictional works
have been successfully adapted for the stage and screen, including That
Eye the Sky, In the Winter Dark, and Cloudstreet. The novel
Breath, published in May 2008, is Winton's ninth novel and twentieth book. It should add
to this writer's soaring popularity in Australia, and increase his growing
international visibility.
Novels by Tim Winton
An Open Swimmer (1982)
Shallows (1984)
That Eye, the Sky (1986)
In the Winter Dark (1989)
Cloudstreet (1991)
The Bugalugs Bum Thief (1991)
The Riders (1994)
The Deep (1998)
Blueback (1998)
Dirt Music (2001)
Breath (2008)
This biography was last updated on 06/13/2008.
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