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Winton wins fourth Miles Franklin
JASON STEGER, Age
Tim Winton was only 24 when in 1984 he first won the Miles Franklin, Australia’s most significant prize for literary fiction. He and his wife, Denise, had a colicky baby and no money. “It saved my bacon; it was the cavalry coming over the hill. And that screaming baby we were racoon-eyed from is a young man with several degrees who turns 25 next month.” Last night, after becoming the first writer to win the award in his own right for a fourth time – for his latest novel, Breath – Winton launched a passionate defence of Australian writers and literary culture. Read more here