Tim Winton

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Timothy John Winton (born August 4, 1960 near Perth , Western Australia ) is an Australian writer .

Life

Winton was born in Western Australia, where he still lives with his wife and three children. He took a creative writing course at Curtin University in Perth. At the age of 21 he won the first literary prize and from then on lived as a freelance writer .

He wrote numerous novels, non-fiction and children's books and received several awards, including four times the Miles Franklin Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize twice . Several works are also available in German translation. The singing tree appeared in 2004 ( Dirt Music ), in 2008 breath ( Breath ), in 2007 the stories Weite Welt appeared .

Works

Novels / short stories

  • To open swimmers. 1982.
  • Shallows. 1984.
  • That Eye, The Sky. 1986.
  • In the Winter Dark. 1988.
  • The Collected Short Novels of Tim Winton. 1988.
  • Cloudstreet. 1991.
    • dt. The house on Cloudstreet . Novel. Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-8105-2333-X .
  • The Riders. 1994.
  • 1997 Blueback. 1997.
  • Dirt Music. 2001.
    • German: The singing tree . Novel. Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-630-87161-5 .
  • Breath. 2008.
  • Eyrie. Penguin Australia, 2013, ISBN 978-1-926428-53-6 .
    • German: vertigo . Novel. From the austral. Engl. By Klaus Berr. Luchterhand, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-630-87448-7 .
  • The Shepherd's hat . Picador, 2018

Short stories

  • Scission and Other Stories. 1985.
  • Minimum of two. 1987.
  • Blood and Water: stories. 1993. (also contains the contents of the previous volumes)
  • The Turning. 2004.
    • German: Wide world. Australian stories . Stories. Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-630-87228-5 .
  • My Father's Ax. In: The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories. selected by Michael Wilding and The Penguin Century of Australian Short Stories edited by Carmel Bird

Children's books

  • Jesse. 1988.
  • Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo. 1990.
  • The Bugalugs Bum Thief. 1991.
  • Lockie Leonard, scumbuster. 1993.
  • Lockie Leonard, Legend 1997.
  • The Deep 1998.

Non-fiction

  • Land's Edge. 1993.
  • Local Color: Travels in the Other Australia. 1994.
  • Australian Colors: Images of the Outback - photography and text by Bill Bachman, additional text by Tim Winton 1998.
  • Down to Earth - text by Tim Winton and photographs by Richard Woldendorp 1999.
  • Iceland Home. a landscape memoir . Penguin Australia, 2015
    • German: island life. My australia . From the Australian English by Klaus Berr. Luchterhand, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-630-87547-7 .

Stage versions

  • Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo - adapted by Paige Gibbs and performed by the Perth Theater Company
  • That Eye, The Sky - adapted by Justin Monjo and Richard Roxburgh

Film versions

  • 1995 That Eye, The Sky - adapted by John Ruane
  • 1998 In the Winter Dark - adapted by James Bogle and Peter Rasmussen
  • 2013 The Turning - adapted by Marieka Walsh, Warwick Thornton, Jub Clerc, Robert Connolly, Anthony Lucas, Rhys Graham, Ashlee Page, Tony Ayres, Claire McCarthy, Stephen Page, Schaun Gladwell, Mia Wasikowska, Simon Stone , David Wenham, Jonathan auf The Heath, Justin Kurzel, Yaron Lifschitz, Ian Meadows
  • 2017 Breath - directed by Simon Baker

Web links

proof

  1. ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur über Atem : The stimulus of danger. July 1, 2008.
  2. ↑ Jamie Hanson: Tim Winton's Island Home isn't memoir, it's a cultural call to arms , theguardian.com, October 13, 2015, accessed June 13, 2019
  3. ^ The Turning (I) (2013) . On: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved February 25, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Winton, Tim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winton, Timothy John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH at Perth