Tim Winton

Twenty-five years have passed since Tim Winton was the joint winner of The Australian/Vogel National Literary Award in 1981 , which led to the publication of An Open Swimmer in 1982. Winton bas now published fourteen novels (including young adult…

As a 'regional celebrity writer' of national and international acclaim, Australian writer Tim Winton contributes to the process of re- defining sustaining myths of identity and belonging in the white Australian imaginary (see Huggan 7). Emerging as a West Australian…

A good academic paper, like a river, is a fluent intertwining, an intermingling and winding together of strands of material from different sources which all arrive at a unified outcome. It does not end where it began. At least, that…

About half way through Tim Winton's novel That Eye, the Sky, the mysterious arrival Henry Warburton tries to explain why he has come- out of the blue, one might say - to help the Flack family in their distress…

Once upon a time, Australian literary criticism was written piecemeal, mainly from outside the academy. Now most of it emerges from within the walls, often dour, routine, derivative stuff, sometimes animated by supple assimilation of theory to local conditions and…

The psychology of guilt as debt is a recurrent theme in Tim Winton’s fiction. A number of scholars have recently examined the theme of haunting in Winton’s Cloudstreet (1991), arguing that the ghosts which appear in the story represent an…

The Fiction of Tim Winton: Earthed and Sacred, by Lyn McCredden. Sydney University Press, 2017. Sydney Studies in Australian Literature, edited by Robert Dixon.