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Tim Winton - Author
Australian author Tim Winton on what drives him and his literary life story.
Rebecca Jones, Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ News arts correspondent, is at Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts to meet Tim Winton, the critically-acclaimed author of novels Dirt Music, Riders and Cloudstreet.
Tim Winton, who once likened writing to surfing, is now publishing two non-fiction titles about his native Australia - Island Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ: A Landscape Memoir, is a passionate call for the conservation of its wild spaces. The deeply personal The Boy Behind the Curtain: Notes from an Australian Life, shows how moments from Winton's formative years have shaped his views on class, faith, fundamentalism, the environment and literature.
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