Tim Winton

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Timothy John Winton (born 1960), known as Tim Winton, is an acclaimed Australian novelist born in Perth, Western Australia. While attending Curtin University, Winton wrote his first novel, An Open Swimmer. This won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and kickstarted his writing career. He is now one of Australia's most well-known novelists, writing both for adults and children.

In 1995 Winton's novel The Riders was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, as was his 2002 book Dirt Music, which is now being turned into a movie. He has won or been nominated for numerous other prizes including winning the Miles Franklin Award three times, for Shallows (1984), Cloudstreet (1992) and Dirt Music (2002). Cloudstreet is arguably his best-known work.

Winton lives in the Australian state of Western Australia with his wife and three children.

Contents

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Novels

  • An Open Swimmer 1982
  • Shallows 1984
  • That Eye, The Sky 1986
  • In the Winter Dark 1988
  • The Collected Short Novels of Tim Winton 1988 includes An Open Swimmer, That Eye, The Sky and In the Winter Dark
  • Cloudstreet 1991
  • The Riders 1994
  • Blueback 1997
  • Dirt Music 2001
  • The Turning 2006

[edit] Short Story Collections

  • Scission and Other Stories 1985
  • Minimum Of Two 1987
  • Blood and Water: stories 1993 (comprises the two previous collections plus some other material)
  • The Turning 2005

[edit] Other Short Story Appearances

  • "My Father's Axe" - appears in The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories selected by Michael Wilding and The Penguin Century of Australian Short Stories edited by Carmel Bird.

[edit] Children's Books

  • Jesse 1988
  • Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo 1990
  • The Bugalugs Bum Thief 1991
  • Lockie Leonard, Scumbuster 1993
  • Lockie Leonard, Legend 1997
  • The Deep 1998 - illustrated by Karen Louise

[edit] Non-Fiction

  • Land's Edge 1993 - with Trish Ainslie and Roger Garwood
  • Local Color: Travels in the Other Australia 1994
  • Australian Colors: Images of the Outback 1998 - photography and text by Bill Bachman, additional text by Tim Winton
  • Down to Earth 1999 - text by Tim Winton and photographs by Richard Woldendorp

[edit] Dramatisations

  • Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo adapted by Paige Gibbs and performed by the Perth Theatre Company.
  • That Eye The Sky adapted by Justin Monjo and Richard Roxburgh. The play was reviewed by Jason Romney in the Herald Sun newspaper of October 17, 1994.

[edit] TV Adaptations

  • A series based on the Lockie Leonard books is currently in production. It is being shot in Albany.

[edit] Awards & Nominations

Booker Prize nominee

[edit] External links

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