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Breath

Winton, Tim

 
9781742014784: Breath

À propos des auteurs

Tim Winton is the acclaimed and award-winning Australian author of more than 30 books for adults and children, including two Booker Prize–shortlisted novels Dirt Music and The Riders. His work has been translated into more than 24 languages and adapted for film, television, stage and radio. He has won the Miles Franklin Award a record four times: for Shallows (1984), Cloudstreet (1992), Dirt Music (2002) and Breath (2009). The Turning also won the 2005 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction while Cloudstreet regularly appears in lists of Australia's best-loved novels. His latest novel is Juice (2024). Winton has been named as a National Living Treasure by the Australian National Trust and awarded the Centenary Medal by the Australian government for services to literature and the community. Winton was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2023 King's Birthday Honours for ‘distinguished service to literature as an author and novelist, to conservation, and to environmental advocacy’. Winton is patron of the Tim Winton Award for Young Writers sponsored by the City of Subiaco, Western Australia and is the patron of two environmental advocacy organisations: the Australian Marine Conservation Society and the Stop the Toad Foundation. He lives in Western Australia.

Dan Wyllie is a highly regarded and well respected Australian actor who has worked extensively in theatre, television and film. His breakthrough role in the 1990 film Spotswood alongside Anthony Hopkins was followed by notable film performances in the hit comedy Muriel's Wedding opposite Toni Collette, Romper Stomper with Russell Crowe, Jane Campion's Holy Smoke, the Terrence Malick film The Thin Red Line, and PJ Hogan's Peter Pan. Dan's television performances include the award-winning series Love My Way which garnered him several award nominations and for which he won the TV Week Silver Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series in 2006. Some of Dan's other stand-out television performances include roles in Channel 9's Underbelly, Two Twisted produced by Bryan Brown, and the ABC series Bastard Boys and Curtin. He also played the lead role in ABC mini-series The Shark Net, an adaptation of the Robert Drewe memoir.

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