Tim Winton
| Tim Winton | |
|---|---|
| Born |
4 August 1960 (age 56) Karrinyup, Western Australia |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Period | 1982–present |
| Genre | Literature, children 's literature, non-fiction, short story |
| Notable works |
Cloudstreet, Dirt Music, Breath, Shallows |
| Notable awards |
Miles Franklin 1984, 1992, 2002, 2009 |
Tim (Timothy John) Winton (born 4 August 1960) is a multi-award winning Australian writer of novels, children's books, non-fiction books and short stories.
Tim Winton was born in Karrinyup, Western Australia, but moved at age of 12 to the regional city of Albany.
Winton has been named a Living Treasure by the National Trust and awarded the Centenary Medal for service to literature and the community. He is patron of the Tim Winton Award for Young Writers sponsored by the City of Subiaco, Western Australia.
He has lived in Italy, France, Ireland and Greece but currently lives in Western Australia. Winton met his wife Denise when they were children at school. When he was 18 and recovering from a car accident they reconnected as she was a student nurse. They married when he was 21 and she was 20 and have three children. They live on the coast north of Perth.
His younger brother, Andrew Winton, is a musician and a high school chaplain. His younger sister is Sharyn O'Neill in 2007 assumed the position of Director General of the WA Education Department.
As his fame has increased Winton has guarded his and his family's privacy. He rarely speaks in public yet he is known as "an affable, plain-speaking man of unaffected intelligence and deep emotions."
Whilst at Curtin University of Technology, Winton wrote his first novel, An Open Swimmer, which won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 1981, launching his writing career. He has stated that he wrote "the best part of three books while at university". His second book, Shallows, won the Miles Franklin Award in 1984. It wasn't until Cloudstreet was published in 1991, however, that his writing career was properly established. He has continued to publish fiction, plays and non-fiction material.
The National Library of Australia holds the Papers of Tim Winton (unpublished 1980-1996) , biographical cuttings and programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia.
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