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    On Tim Winton: Writers on Writers
    On Tim Winton: Writers on Writers
    On Tim Winton: Writers on Writers
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    On Tim Winton: Writers on Writers

    By Geraldine Brooks

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    In this beautifully written personal essay, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Geraldine Brooks offers readers brilliant insights into the work of one of Australia’s greatest living writers, Tim Winton.
    In the Writers on Writers series, leading authors reflect on an Australian writer who has inspired and fascinated them. Provocative and crisp, these books start a fresh conversation between past and present, shed new light on the craft of writing, and introduce some intriguing and talented authors and their work.
    Published by Black Inc. in association with the University of Melbourne and State Library Victoria.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlack Inc. Books
    Release dateNov 29, 2022
    ISBN9781743822630
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    Geraldine Brooks

    Geraldine Brooks was born and raised in Australia. After moving to the USA she worked for eleven years on The Wall Street Journal, where she covered crises in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Her first novel, Year of Wonders, was an international bestseller and she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her second, March. She has written three further bestselling novels, Caleb’s Crossing, People of the Book and The Secret Chord.

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      On Tim Winton - Geraldine Brooks

      MEETING THE WRITER I

      On a mandevilla-draped verandah, knots of people tangled and unravelled, loud and lubricated. It was the party for the 2004 Byron Bay Writers Festival.

      Propped in a shadowy corner, he stood alone, nursing a drink, gazing at the floor. Every now and then I glanced his way. At that point, he’d been a published novelist for twenty-two years, a National Living Treasure for seven. It didn’t seem likely he could still be shy. Perhaps the east-coast literary-wanker percentage in this crowd was too high for him: too many people he might describe as ‘svelte sophisticate[s] in seven shades of black’. I wasn’t game enough to go over and find out.

      But when the kaleidoscope of the crowd shifted, I found myself talking to his publisher, and next thing, she was steering me towards him. I can’t remember anything about that brief conversation; two introverts making awkward small talk. I do remember that he seemed young to me, which was odd, since he was forty-four and I wasn’t yet fifty. The T-shirt and ponytail barely accounted for why I would’ve mentally placed him in a different generation. Because in the one way that really mattered, he was many years my senior. I’d just finished writing my second novel. He was at work on his tenth, Breath. It would win him his fourth Miles Franklin Literary Award.

      He’d got cracking on being a novelist, turning down admission to the University of Western Australia and going instead to tech, because they had a creative writing course there and he wanted to learn to make literature, not theorise about it. He wrote his first novel and the better part of the next two while he was still a student.

      This astonished me. We’d both grown up in neighbourhoods where expectations for achievement were modest, born into families who’d been denied much formal education. We were both beneficiaries of the Whitlam moment, when higher education was put in reach of people who hadn’t previously been included. Even so, in my lower-middle-class suburb a girl’s desire to be a newspaper reporter was risibly ambitious; the notion of being a novelist was beyond the wildest ambit claim of my imagination. It took more than a decade of journalism and two journalist’s books before I allowed myself to even think about

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