Tim Winton

Tim Winton is one of Australia's most celebrated novelists, whose fiction about the landscapes, communities, and people of Western Australia has earned him virtually every major Australian literary prize. Born in Perth in 1960, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times. Breath follows two teenage boys in a small coastal town in 1970s Western Australia who are drawn to big-wave surfing and to a mysterious older surfer who pushes them to ever more dangerous feats. The novel is a beautifully written coming-of-age story about risk, adolescence, and the seductive pull of danger. It was adapted into a feature film. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers luminous Australian fiction about the ocean, the landscape, and the forces that shape us — storytelling of the highest order.