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	Tim Winton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tim Winton (born 1960) is an acclaimed Australian novelist born in Perth, Western Australia.
		In 1995 Winton's novel The Riders was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, as was his 2002 book Dirt Music.
		Winton lives in the Australian state of Western Australia with his wife and three children.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tim_Winton (396 words)

	Tim Winton's big issues - smh.com.au
		Tim Winton makes his way into the cosy foyer of Hazlitt's, a boutique hotel in Soho favoured by writers, perhaps most notably Roddy Doyle, who stayed there when he won the 1993 Booker Prize.
		Winton sparked a minor controversy back home in Perth by immediately donating the $25,000 purse from the WA award to the fighting fund for the campaign he is heading against "a hideous white-shoe development" planned for the pristine whale shark breeding ground at Ningaloo Reef in WA.
		Winton, against his better judgement, lets it be known he couldn't give a toss.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/05/28/1022569769876.html (2025 words)

	The Spirit of Things: 26 December 2004 - Tim Winton’s Faith
		Tim Winton: No, I mean I find them intellectually interesting I suppose, and I have some kind of emotional baggage, but as I’ve got older I find myself less and less dogmatic and less and less interested by dogma, and less inclined to feel myself drawn into a theological debate, you know.
		Tim Winton: Yes, I used to be a great admirer of the Gospel of Luke because he had sympathy and he was a bit of a doer and a doctor and all that sort of thing.
		Tim Winton: It interests me, but I’m enough of an Australian to be a little appalled as well, to be honest, you know where everyone kind of invokes God in a kind of a sort of thoughtless automatic way, or they drag him kicking and screaming into every political debate, or bureaucratic struggle.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/relig/spirit/stories/s1266832.htm (4453 words)

	Powell's Books - Dirt Music by Tim Winton
		Tim Winton is sometimes likened to Cormac McCarthy, and while in Dirt Music Winton's wild west is the desert coastline of Western Australia, both men recreate a harsh landscape beset by scarred characters enduring violence, abandonment, and cruel twists of fate.
		As the story unravels Winton mesmerizes with beautiful language, veering from the laconic to the poetic, and his pacing is calibrated to keep the most easily distracted of readers captivated.
		The genius of Tim Winton is that for all of this he never loses his pacing, and the story lodges deeply within the reader.
	www.powells.com /biblio/0743228480 (1227 words)

	The Turning by Tim Winton, reviews, links and opinions, book club reading suggestions
		Winton cleverly links characters and themes throughout these vivid stories, so the overall effect is similar to reading a novel.
		Winton's ability to evoke the Australian landscape in all its contrast is breathtakingly skilful.
		Winton revels in the sheer beauty of the ordinary and the domestic - there is always hope; humanity always has the capacity to change for the better.
	www.book-club.co.nz /books04/11theturning.htm (559 words)

	Books - Australia - Tim Winton - Worldpress.org
		Tim Winton makes his way into the cozy foyer of Hazlitt’s, a boutique hotel in [London’s] Soho favored by writers.
		Winton’s novel, The Riders, with its vistas of the Netherlands, Greece, Ireland, and Paris, is a story that many observers consider to be his most “European work.” That it was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1995, where his earlier works, especially Cloudstreet—perhaps his most quintessentially Australian novel—were not, has fired up the Booker’s critics.
		Winton remains a committed longboard rider, and he counts among his heroes one of modern surfing’s Australian pioneers, the Victorian big-wave rider, Wayne Lynch.
	www.worldpress.org /print_article.cfm?article_id=737&dont=yes (1129 words)

	Tim Winton talks about Dirt Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Winton has always successfully avoided what others might regard as 'gainful' employment; preferring instead to pursue a career in writing.
		Winton explained that he had been brought up in a town similar to the town in his novel.
		Winton described the reader's experience of reading the novel as a "collaborative experience with the author".
	www.theblurb.com.au /Issue12/TimWinton.htm (860 words)

	Australian Authors - Tim Winton
		Winton was again shortlisted for The Booker Prize in 2002 for his novel Dirt Music, but lost out in a very strong field.
		In recent years Tim Winton has become the patron of the Tim Winton Award for Young Writers which is sponsored by the City of Subiaco in Western Australia.
		Although a reluctant media performer, Winton appeared on the ABC TV program "Enough Rope" with Andrew Denton in 2004, and a transcript of the program is available.
	www.middlemiss.org /lit/authors/wintont/wintont.html (601 words)

	Tim Winton - Into the Blue: an interview with Australia's masterly wordsmith
		It should be required reading in creative writing classes: Winton is a master of language who writes unadorned sentences that build in power and persuasive effect.
		Winton is philosophic about that: "I guess it is awkward in that I don't know who it's for.
		Tim Winton, P.D. James, Richard Ford, Fay Weldon, Oliver Sacks, Anne Fine, Mordecai Richler, Timothy Mo, J.P. Donleavy, Ann Oakley, Kinky Friedman, Brian Keenan, Roald Dahl, Paulo Coelho, Alberto Manguel, Luisa Valenzuela and Morris West.
	members.optusnet.com.au /~waldrenm/winton.html (1412 words)

	Tim Winton: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tim Winton (born 1960) is an Australia Australia quick summary:
		Minimum of two is a volume of short stories by australiaaustralian writer tim winton....
		Cloudstreet is a novel that is generally considered to be australian writer tim wintons magnum opus....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ti/tim_winton.htm (306 words)

	Dirt Music by Tim Winton, Picador, book reviews and opinions, discussion questions,
		Tim Winton's previous novels include Cloudstreet and The Riders, which won The Miles Franklin Award and was shortlisted for The Booker in 1995.
		Winton’s descriptive prose works both externally in its depiction of the natural land — the sea and desert of Western Australia which makes up its setting, and internally, in the way it goes deep inside the pain and anxieties of its characters, as they struggle to free themselves from tremendous damage, and paralysis.
		I believe Winton worked on this novel for seven years, and would be sorry if the few glaring Americanisms were inserted to capture the global market.
	www.book-club.co.nz /books/16dirtmusic.htm (2083 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - The Riders
		Tim Winton was born in 1960 in Perth, Western Australia, where he grew up amid a landscape to which he is still inextricably tied: the untouched white beaches, the gray-blue range of hills.
		Winton knew from an early age that he would be a writer.
		Tim Winton lives with his wife and children in Western Australia, where he grew up, and where he continues to write.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=3059509 (1139 words)

	Tim Winton
		Tim Winton is patron of the Tim Winton Award for Young Writers sponsored by the City of Subiaco, Western Australia.
		Fox is yet another Winton character to be beset by dreams, flashbacks and memory; their journeys of self-discovery are connected to their relationship with the natural world.
		Tim Winton brings his human and environmental themes together in ways that are always intensely realized and touching.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth03C7L393712635104 (1744 words)

	Amazon.com: Cloudstreet : A Novel: Books: Tim Winton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Winton writes in a slang-filled idiom that captures the resilience of Australians, their uncanny ability to dust themselves off and spit in the face of misfortune.
		Winton's survivors win your heart and his evocation of Perth, surrounded by sea and sand, takes you to a town on the edge of the earth.
		Winton is able to develop the characters over a great majority of their lives, as they experience living through poverty.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743234413?v=glance (1980 words)

	Tim Winton - a profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Winner of some 16 literary awards, popular with children and adults alike and famously attached to his home in Western Australia, Tim Winton is one of this country’s finest novelists.
		According to his publisher, Winton had however already decided by that stage that he wanted to be a professional writer; a desire fuelled he says by “a sudden and lasting fear of employment”.
		In many of his novels, the sea features prominently; which is perhaps a little surprising given that at age 9, he nearly drowned when the family boat was swamped by a wave (a similar incident appears in the early part of Cloudstreet).
	www.theblurb.com.au /Issue49/Winton.htm (800 words)

	Read Hot: Dirt Music by Tim Winton
		Dirt Music is a love story, by Tim Winton, that never calls itself a love story.
		Tim Winton is an awarded novelist from Australia.
		He has lived in Australia all his life and is celebrated as one of the distinct Australian authors of this age.
	english.unitecnology.ac.nz /readhot/book_review.php?book_id=41 (326 words)

	lockie_leonard
		Winton was born in Perth in 1960, which means he was Lockie Leonard's age in the early 1970s.
		Tim Winton says that he will not be writing any more episodes in the Lockie Leonard saga.
		Tim Winton has decided he will write one more book about Lockie and he has asked you to be his research assistant.
	www.teachers.ash.org.au /ozreading/activities/lockie.htm (453 words)

	Dirt Music by Tim Winton - read review
		Winton has a writing style that is intriguing, but definitely on target.
		I had the feeling that every word that Winton chose was picked with great care, to bring about a feeling as much as a meaning to the sentences.
		Tim Winton was born in 1960 and grew up on the coast of Western Australia, where he continues to live.
	mostlyfiction.com /world/winton.htm (743 words)

	sydneyanglicans.net - A beautiful mind - an interview with Tim Winton
		Winton has written nineteen books, many of which include spiritual reflection or musing on matters of faith.
		For Winton it was bewildering to see his policeman father incapacitated and housebound.
		More than 30 years have passed since then and this act of compassion and sacrifice still surprises Tim Winton and those with whom he shares the story.
	www.sydneyanglicans.net /indepth/a_beautiful_mind_an_interview_with_tim_winton (874 words)

	Tim Winton Talks :: ABC Perth
		Tim Winton is amongst our most celebrated authors.
		Tim covers a lot of ground - memories of youth, the scramble to finish "Dirt Music", remembering to remember, whether he could be a politician, the importance of luck, his favourite book...and being media shy.
		Tim Winton covers a lot of ground in this interview.
	www.abc.net.au /perth/stories/s1226420.htm (532 words)

	Jabberwock: Meeting Kate Grenville and Tim Winton
		Winton and Grenville – along with a third author, Peter Goldsworthy - were in town as part of a literary tour; since we only had space for two profiles I had to choose, and Goldsworthy drew the short straw.
		From Winton’s reputation as a maverick and from my cursory reading of his rude, rambunctious novel Cloudstreet -- a cult classic, written in chapterettes and full of earthy colloquialisms -- I had expected the archetypal swaggering Aussie.
		Tim’s response, as my photographer ordered him off the porch and to the poolside: "I’d like to know what those guys were drinking when they cast the votes."
	jaiarjun.blogspot.com /2004/11/meeting-kate-grenville-and-tim-winton.html (1101 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Dirt Music: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Their moment of union is short-lived and the rest of the novel is the tale of separate journeys across the continent, as they recognise what their coming together has revealed to them about themselves and those around them.
		Winton’s writing has a natural rhythm, like respiration in parts, and is often poetic without being too whimsical or melancholy.
		I really admire Winton as a writer as he has proved to be consistently readable but writes with passion and a knowledge of the country where the stories are set.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0330490265 (886 words)

	Blueback - A Fable For All Ages
		For Winton, it is the path of commitment; the indigenous intervolvement of people and their natural environment - with people treating the environment as 'subject rather than object' (Winton quoting Charles Birch in the Good Weekend magazine).
		Winton may have a future battle on his hands with those offended by his almost fl and white treatment of scientific environmentalism versus experiential (indigenous?) environmentalism.
		Winton is saying that no amount of airy fairy tree-hugging or pot banging will provide us with a sustainable environmental future.
	jmm.aaa.net.au /articles/631.htm (701 words)

	Strand Bookstore: Turning; by Tim Winton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Winton is a master at capturing the urgency of memory, the way an entire life can be shaped by one event deep in the past.
		With extraordinary insight and tenderness, Winton explores the demons and frailties of ordinary people whose lives arenot what they had hoped.
		Tim Winton is the author of eighteen books, his two most recent novels, "Dirt Music" and "The Riders," were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
	www.strandbooks.com /profile?isbn=0743276930 (215 words)

	Amazon.com: Dirt Music : A Novel: Books: Tim Winton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The stunning new narrative by Australian writer Winton (The Riders, nominated for the Booker), a tale of three characters' perilous journey into the Australian wilderness in efforts to escape and atone for their pasts, may just be his breakthrough American publication.
		Geography and landscape are palpable elements: as the narrative progresses, the atmosphere shifts from the austere monotony of a seacoast battered by wind into spectacular gorge country, the bare desolation of the desert and the terrible heat of the tropics.
		Tim Winton brings us to scenes and makes us breathe in the surrounding, stand and witness whatever that is happening in the following pages.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743228480?v=glance (1630 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Cloudstreet (Picador Books): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In this fresh, funny novel, full of wonder and dreams, Tim Winton weaves the threads of lifetimes, of twenty years of shouting and fighting, laughing and grafting, into a story about acceptance and belonging.
		Winton has a sentimental affection for Western Audtralia and the land.
		Winton has an unpretentious style which is easy to understand and sympathise with.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0330322699 (807 words)

	Dirt Music by Tim Winton - Reviewed by Ann Skea - Eclectica Magazine v6n1
		To my mind, the sad thing is that Winton is a writer whose skill at drawing Australian landscapes is superb, but this skill seems wasted on the bunch of course-mouthed, disillusioned characters who people this story.
		A one-legged surfer with a grudge called Rusty, a hypodermic constantly stuck in his thigh, on a manic, perpetual high from a cocktail of drugs, is a bit much.
		Winton is not, as Robert Taylor of the West Australian claims, "the most important Australian writer of his generation." How would one judge that?
	www.eclectica.org /v6n1/skea_winton.html (610 words)

	Tim Winton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tim Winton was born in 1960 in Western Australia where he still lives.
		It won and Winton has never looked back, utilizing his considerable talent to maintain a full-time writing career.
		Tim Winton lives in Western Australia with his wife and three children.
	www.yudev.com /mfo/britlit/winton_tim.htm (239 words)

	Tim Winton muses on Australians’ discomfort with faith \| TMA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tim Winton muses on Australians’ discomfort with faith
		Tim Winton muses on Australians’ discomfort with faith
		Winton has written 19 books, many of which include spiritual reflection or musing on matters of faith.
	www.media.anglican.com.au /tma/2005/timwinton.html (689 words)

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