The Western Australian writer and environmental activist says the 'clock is ticking' on human existence — but there's still an important place for art and writing.
"I'm standing there in the water with my wife and my mother looking at each other like, 'Remind you of anything?'," Winton says.
"If you're in this caper long enough, you realise that it's inevitable that you're going to repeat yourself, but not in a conventional way," Winton says. It's an unlikely story for any author, and would have been unimaginable for a young Tim, who decided at 10 years old that he was going to be a writer. Growing up in a working-class family in suburban Perth, Winton understood that he lived on "the wrong side of the wrong country in the wrong hemisphere"."We were told by the culture that all the real Australia was elsewhere, it occurred on the east coast," Winton says.
And good he was. But when the awards started coming in, Winton was more embarrassed than proud. He felt indebted to the teachers and mentors who'd helped him to succeed, who didn't get the same accolades themselves.Pleasure and painBlueback, a heartbreaking allegory about a boy, his mother and a blue groper, was written "inside a business week," Winton says.
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