Tim Winton
Australian novelist whose fiction celebrates and interrogates the lives of working-class communities in Western Australia. Cloudstreet is his celebrated sprawling family saga and Breath brought international attention with its meditation on surfing and danger.
Works
- CloudstreetTwo families share one house across generations in post-war Perth
- BreathTwo boys bond through surfing and risk-taking in coming-of-age story
- The RidersMan searches Western Australia for his vanished wife and rediscovered son
- Dirt MusicMan confronts his past through music and love in Australian outback
- EyrieIsolated man descends into dark isolation high above the Australian bush