Description
Book SynopsisTim Winton has published over twenty books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into many different languages. Since his first novel,
An Open Swimmer, won the
Australian/Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for
Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and
Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for
The Riders and
Dirt Music). Active in the environmental movement, he is the Patron of the Australian Marine Conservation Society. He lives in Western Australia.
Trade ReviewWinton’s writing is a heady blend of muscular description, deep sentiment and metaphysics. * Sunday Telegraph *
His elegiac novels are uplifting and cathartic dissections of fractured men and women. * Independent *
Winton has a fine ear for both intimate and monumental scales of drama. * Evening Standard *
