Tim Winton
Timothy John Winton (* August 4, 1960 in Perth, Western Australia ) is an Australian writer.
Life
Winton was born in Western Australia, where he still lives with his wife and three children today. He took a course in creative writing at Curtin University in Perth. At age 21, he won his first literary prize, and lived from then on as a freelance writer.
He wrote numerous novels, nonfiction and children's books and has received several awards, among others listed four times the Miles Franklin Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize and was twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Several works are also available in German translation. Was published in 2004 The Singing Tree (Dirt Music ), 2008 Breath ( Breath ), 2007 stories appeared Wide World.
Works
Novels / stories
- An Open Swimmer. In 1982.
- Shallows. In 1984.
- That Eye, The Sky. In 1986.
- In the Winter Dark. In 1988.
- The Collected Short Novels of Tim Winton. In 1988.
- Cloud Street. In 1991. dt The house on Cloudstreet. Novel. Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3- 8105-2333 -X.
- German: transmissions. Novel. Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-8105-2332-1.
- German: The Singing Tree. Novel. Luchterhand Literature Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-630-87161-5.
- German: breath. Novel. Luchterhand Literature Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-630-87276-6.
Short stories
- Scission and Other Stories. In 1985.
- Minimum of Two. In 1987.
- Blood and Water: stories. In 1993. ( Also contains the contents of the previous volumes)
- The Turning. , 2004. German: Wide World. Australian stories. Narratives. Luchterhand Literature Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-630-87228-5.
Children's Books
- Jesse. In 1988.
- Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo. In 1990.
- The Bugalugs Bum Thief. In 1991.
- Lockie Leonard, Scumbuster. In 1993.
- Lockie Leonard, Legend 1997.
- The Deep 1998.
Non-fiction
- Land's Edge. In 1993.
- Local Color: Travels in the Other Australia. In 1994.
- Australian Colors: Images of the Outback - photography and text by Bill Bachman, additional text by Tim Winton 1998.
- Down to Earth - text by Tim Winton and photographs by Richard Woldendorp 1999.
Stage versions
- Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo - adapted by Paige Gibbs and performed by the Perth Theatre Company
- That Eye, The Sky - adapted by Justin Monjo and Richard Roxburgh