Tim Winton will next month mark four decades as a published author, but he’s not slowing down. | jasonfsteger
Tim Winton has been a part-time novelist for the past three years. Yes, he has a book on the go, but he has also been writing and narrating a documentary about the Ningaloo Reef off the coast of north-west Australia. And for once, he’s not quite sure what he’s writing: is it homage or elegy? Perhaps even eulogy; possibly all three. However the documentary turns out, it has been unsettling.“Look at what’s going on in the UK and Europe.
Neither of his parents had finished school, and for a white, working-class family in the 1960s, a writer was someone from a different life, place or era. As he regularly says, he was constantly told he was from the wrong side of the wrong country in the wrong hemisphere. So he was an optimist even back them, or at least stubborn and defiant.
A lot of [Cloudstreet] was hard work, but it was a kind of thrill to write once I found the voice and I had Fish Lamb whispering in my ear.When he was still a student he met Clives James who told him no one should write a novel before they were 40. “I just thought I’d better not mention I had written two.” At that stage he had already written the bulk ofhis first short-story collection.
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