An award recognizing the best Australian book or play has been given, for a record-breaking fourth time, to novelist Tim Winton for his short novel Breath, which is set amidst a surfing community in Western Australia.
Catherine Schine of the New York Review of Books has called Tim Winton "a practitioner of what might be called the school of Macho Romanticism, or perhaps better, Heroic Sensitivity," and he has been compared to Hemingway, Mann, and McEwan. His previous novels Shallows (1984), Cloudstreet (1992), and Dirt Music (2002) have also won Miles Franklin Awards, and Cloudstreet--about two working class families living together from 1943-1963--is considered by many Australians a favorite book.
Winton's The Riders (1995) and Dirt Music were also shortlisted for Man Booker Prizes.
19 June 2009
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