Tim Winton has published twenty books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into twenty-five languages. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian/Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music).  He lives in Western Australia.

Awards

Winner - 2003 Australian Society of Authors Medal

For Adults:

Breath

Winner - 2009 Miles Franklin Award

Winner - 2008 Age Book of the Year Fiction Award

Winner - 2008 Indie Award

Shortlisted - 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, South East Asia and the South Pacific Region

Shortlisted - 2009 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize

The Turning

Shortlisted - 2005 Inaugural Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award

Commended - 2005 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book

Winner - 2005 Queensland Premier's Literary Award, Best Fiction Book

Winner - 2005 New South Wales Premier's Literary Award, Christina Stead Prize

Joint Winner - 2004 Colin Roderick Award

Dirt Music

Shortlisted - 2002 Man Booker Prize

Shortlisted - 2002 Kiriyama Prize

Winner - 2002 Miles Franklin Award

Winner - 2002 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize

Winner - 2001 Western Australian Premier's Book Award - Book of the Year

Winner - 2001 Western Australian Premier's Book Award - Fiction

Winner - 2001 Good Reading Award - Readers Choice Book of the Year

Winner - 2001 Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award

The Riders

Shortlisted - 1995 Booker Prize

Winner - 1995 Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region

Cloudstreet

Winner - 1992 Deo Gloria Award

Winner - 1991 NBC Banjo Award for Literature

Winner -1991 Miles Franklin Award

Joint Winner - 1991 Western Australia Premier's Book Award - Fiction

Minimum of Two and Other Stories

Winner - 1988 Western Australian Premier's Book Award - Fiction

Scission and Other Stories

Joint Winner - 1985 Western Australian Premier's Book Award - Fiction

Winner - 1985 Western Australian Council Literary Award

Shallows

Winner - 1984 Miles Franklin Literary Award

Joint Winner - 1985 Western Australian Premier's Book Award - Fiction

An Open Swimmer

Winner - 1981 Australian/Vogel National Literary Award

For Children and Young Adults:

Lockie Leonard, Legend

Winner - 1998 Family Award for Children's Literature

Blueback

Winner - 1998 Bolinda Audio Book Awards

Winner - 1998 Wilderness Society Environment Award

Winner - 1999 WAYRBA Hoffman Award for Young Readers

Lockie Leonard, Scumbuster

Winner - 1993 Wilderness Society Environment Award

The Buglalugs Bum Thief

Winner - 1994 CROW Award (Children Reading Outstanding Writers): Focus list (Years 3-5)

Winner - 1998 YABBA Awards: Fiction for Younger Readers

Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo

Winner - 1993 American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults Award

Winner - 1996 YABBA Awards: Fiction for Older Readers

Joint winner - 1991 Western Australian Premier's Book Award: Children's Book

Jesse

Winner - 1990 Western Australian Premier's Book Award: Children's Book