Life as Remarkable Failure: Tim Winton – An Open Swimmer.

An Open Swimmer, published in 1982, is Tim Winton’s first short novel, and won the Australian /Vogel Award for Best First Novel. To anyone who has read any of his books, this honour will come as no surprise. He is an exceptionally talented writer, with deep insight into the human soul. Since then he has received more accolades; the Miles Franklin Award, twice (Shallows, in 1984 and Cloudstreet, in 1992), the Commonwealth Writers Pr...