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He has won many other prizes, including the Miles Franklin Award three times: for Shallows (1984), Cloudstreet (1992) and Dirt Music (2002). Both are currently being adapted for film. In 1995 Winton’s novel, The Riders, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, as was his 2002 book, Dirt Music. However, it wasn't until Cloudstreet was published in 1991 that his career, and economic future, was firmly established. In fact, he wrote "the best part of three books while at university." His second book, Shallows, won the Miles Franklin Award in 1984. It went on to win The Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 1981, and launched his writing career. While attending Curtin University of Technology, Winton wrote his first novel, An Open Swimmer. He has lived in Italy, France, Ireland and Greece and currently lives in Western Australia with his wife and three children. He is patron of the Tim Winton Award for Young Writers sponsored by the City of Subiaco, Western Australia Winton has been named a Living Treasure by the National Trust and awarded the Centenary Medal for service to literature and the community.

He has written twenty books, including the bestselling novels Cloudstreet, The Riders, and Dirt Music. Tim Winton is the preeminent Australian novelist of his generation. Times) Commonwealth Writers Prize many, many regional awards. National Trust Centenary Medal Miles Franklin Award (3

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“Yes, boys need their unexamined privilege curtailed,” he said. Winton emphasised that to provide better modelling for their behaviour, boys need to be attended to, including in literature. “ don’t have quotas in their fiction about making sure they get enough men characters.” “ preoccupation with hypermasculine perspectives feels a little overbearing.” Cat Foley, Mary Martin Bookshop In an interview with The Guardianthe same year, in response to accusations that his work is sexist, Winton said, “A lot of the time, I wonder if I’m just being convicted of insufficient valorisation of the women characters.”

“Nobody needs to hear me mansplaining on the subject of the patriarchy,” he said in a speech about his most recent book The Shepherd’s Hut in 2018. Winton declined to be interviewed for this story, but has previously spoken about his focus on masculinity, seemingly aware of the criticism but unapologetic about it.