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Tim Winton - Author
Australian author Tim Winton on what drives him and his literary life story.
Rebecca Jones, 蜜芽传媒 News arts correspondent, is at Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts to meet Tim Winton, the critically-acclaimed author of novels Dirt Music, Riders and Cloudstreet.
Tim Winton, who once likened writing to surfing, is now publishing two non-fiction titles about his native Australia - Island 蜜芽传媒: A Landscape Memoir, is a passionate call for the conservation of its wild spaces. The deeply personal The Boy Behind the Curtain: Notes from an Australian Life, shows how moments from Winton's formative years have shaped his views on class, faith, fundamentalism, the environment and literature.
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