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5 unusual facts about Tim Winton


Geoff Cartwright

In 1996 Cartwright won a TDK Australian Audio Book Award for his narration of Tim Winton's The Riders.

Glenn Perry

Perry is currently working on an operatic treatment of Tim Winton’s That Eye, the Sky for Julian Yu and ChamberMade Opera.

Hugo Johnstone-Burt

A week before he graduated from NIDA, Johnstone-Burt was approached to play the brain damaged Fish Lamb in the television adaptation of Tim Winton's Cloudstreet.

Max Pam

The images leave the viewer, as Tim Winton said in Going East (Marval 1992), “grateful for having been taken so mysteriously by surprise and so far and sweetly abroad.”

Ningaloo Reef

Local author Tim Winton was particularly opposed to the development, and spoke publicly against it.


Fremantle Press

Subsequent published authors include A. B. Facey, Sally Morgan, Elizabeth Jolley, Tim Winton, Liz Byrski, Julia Lawrinson, Kim Scott, John Kinsella, John A. Long, Tracy Ryan, Richard Woldendorp, Frances Andrijich, Carolyn Polizzotto, Wayne Ashton, Anna Haebich, Philip Salom, Eoin Cameron, Kate Lamont, Kate McCaffrey, Simon Haynes, Craig Silvey and Stephen Kinnane.

Island magazine

But, reflecting the national character of the magazine, contributors during this period included Les Murray, Christopher Koch, Dorothy Green, Humphrey McQueen, Donald Horne, Frank Moorhouse, Gwen Harwood, Bernard Smith, Hugh Stretton, Tim Winton, Olga Masters, Marion Halligan, John Forbes, Judith Beveridge, Geoff Page and Peter Porter.

Richard Woldendorp

Some of his books have had significant West Australian authors provide introductions and text - such as Tom Hungerford, and Tim Winton who wrote an accompanying essay for Down to Earth.


see also

Shinrone

Arlo Guthrie's visit to Shinrone is mentioned in Tim Winton's novel The Riders - shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1995.