Tim Winton interview: ‘The world isn’t always what you think it is’
The author of The Riders on creating characters who feel like family, the force of weather and geography in fiction, and how being a parent has shaped him as a writer
Tim Winton
Tim Winton has been described as one of the greatest living Australian writers
Winton has published numerous books, and his work has been translated into 28 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).
He lives in Western Australia.
All nominated books
Tim Winton depicts a man’s desperate quest across Europe, as he tries to track down his missing wife
Tim Winton’s modern love story about people stifled by grief or regret, whose dreams are lost, and whose hopes have all but dried up
