Glimpse a rare and intimate view of internationally bestselling author Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play, through these remarkable true stories.
Tim Winton is the acclaimed and award-winning Australian author of
more than 30 books for adults and children, including two Booker
Prize–shortlisted novels Dirt Music and The Riders. His work has
been translated into more than 24 languages and adapted for film,
television, stage and radio. He has won the Miles Franklin Award a
record four times: for Shallows (1984), Cloudstreet (1992), Dirt
Music (2002) and Breath (2009). The Turning also won the 2005
Christina Stead Prize for Fiction while Cloudstreet regularly
appears in lists of Australia's best-loved novels. His latest novel
is Juice (2024).
Winton has been named as a National Living Treasure by the
Australian National Trust and awarded the Centenary Medal by the
Australian government for services to literature and the community.
Winton was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia in the
2023 King's Birthday Honours for ‘distinguished service to
literature as an author and novelist, to conservation, and to
environmental advocacy’.
Winton is patron of the Tim Winton Award for Young Writers
sponsored by the City of Subiaco, Western Australia and is the
patron of two environmental advocacy organisations: the Australian
Marine Conservation Society and the Stop the Toad Foundation. He
lives in Western Australia. Tim Winton has published 20 books for
adults and children, and his work has been translated into 25
languages. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the
Australian/Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award
four times and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. A
passionate environmentalist, he currently lives on the Western
Australian coast with his wife and three children.
‘He makes complex art seem simple ... A body of nonfiction work
that is (unsurprisingly) beautiful and brilliant and provocative,
and (surprisingly) revealing ... It is this sight of the sacred in
the ordinary that probably accounts for some part of why Winton's
writing recedes from his imitators' reach.’
*Sydney Morning Herald*
‘That Winton’s nonfiction is as lyrical as his fiction goes without
saying.’
*The Guardian*
'Tim Winton’s 28th book proves the much-loved Australian writer
just gets better with age.'
*Woman's Day*
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