Tim Winton

Twenty-five years have passed since Tim Winton was the joint winner of The Australian/Vogel National Literary Award in 1981 , which led to the publication…

Discusses Winton's representations of femininity, and particularly the close relationship between self-harm and the female body. 'What is the effect of Winton—often perceived as a…

Winton discusses his career, literary influences, and approach to form and style.

A good academic paper, like a river, is a fluent intertwining, an intermingling and winding together of strands of material from different sources which all…

Discusses Winton's fiction, including That Eye, The Sky in terms of vision, time, gender and language, arguing that the work is animated by a set…

Once upon a time, Australian literary criticism was written piecemeal, mainly from outside the academy. Now most of it emerges from within the walls, often…

Tim Winton's writing—novels, short stories, books for young adults, theatre, and essay—continues to garner critical and popular acclaim, positioning him in the top echelon of…

The psychology of guilt as debt is a recurrent theme in Tim Winton’s fiction. A number of scholars have recently examined the theme of haunting…

The Fiction of Tim Winton: Earthed and Sacred, by Lyn McCredden. Sydney University Press, 2017. Sydney Studies in Australian Literature, edited by Robert Dixon.

This article argues that salt functions as a transformative marking and shaping agent in Tim Winton’s work. Salt scars both people and place (externally and…