Tim Winton

Tim Winton (Australia) is one of Australia’s most decorated and beloved literary novelists. He has written 25 books for adults and children, including The Riders, Shallows, Dirt Music, Breath and An Open Swimmer. Winton has won the Miles Franklin Award for best Australian novel four times, and was long-listed for the Award in 2014. Winton has also twice been a finalist for the Man Booker Prize. At Wordfest, he presents his new novel, Eyrie, an exhilarating story inhabited by unforgettable characters and a book that explores how, in an impossibly compromised world, we can ever hope to do the right thing.