Novelist Tim Winton

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Novelist

Tim Winton

Living place: Australia

Birthday: 4-8-1960 (64 years old)

Population of the world 1960: 3.039 billions

Global rank: #55878

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Who is Novelist Tim Winton?
Known for his Man Booker Prize nominated novels Dirt Music and The Riders, this acclaimed Australian writer has also written numerous children's books, including The Bugalugs Bum Thief and the Lockie Leonard series.
He created The Tim Winton Young Writers Award to encourage children in Perth, Australia, to write short stories.
 
 

Young / Before famous

His first novel, An Open Swimmer, was published while he was a student at Curtin University of Technology. The book was awarded the 1981 Vogel Australian Literary Prize.

Family life info

A native of Western Australia, he lived in France, Greece, Italy and Ireland before settling in his hometown with his wife and children.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Novelist Tim Winton?
Contemporary Australian literature, Felice Arena, also composed her famous children .

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When was Novelist Tim Winton born?
Tim Winton birthday 4-8-1960 (at the age of 64).
Where is Novelist Tim Winton's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Tim Winton was born in Australia. is a Novelist, whose Zodiac is Leo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rat. Tim Winton's global rank is 55878 and whose rank is 481 in list of famous Novelist. Population of the world in 1960 is about 3.039 billions persons.
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Events in 1960 and 4-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Tim Winton

  • American U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, shot down over Russia (May 1).
  • Khrushchev kills Paris summit conference because of U-2 (May 16).
  • Top Nazi murderer of Jews, Adolf Eichmann, captured by Israelis in Argentina (May 23)—executed in Israel in 1962.
  • Communist China and Soviet Union split in conflict over Communist ideology.
  • Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Madagascar, and Zaire (Belgian Congo) gain independence.
  • There are 900 US military advisers in South Vietnam. Background: Vietnam War

Birthday Tim Winton (4-8) in history

  • Day 4-8 year 1735: Journalist John Peter Zenger, defended by former Pennsylvania House Speaker Andrew Hamilton, was acquitted of defamation in a case that helped promote press freedom.
  • Day 4-8 year 1884: Thomas Stevens became the first person to bicycle across the United States. He later bicycled around the world.
  • Day 4-8 year 1892: Lizzie Borden's father and stepmother were killed with an axe in Fall River, Mass.
  • Day 4-8 year 1914: Germany invaded Belgium and, in response, Britain declared war on Germany.
  • Day 4-8 year 1916: Denmark ceded the Danish West Indies, including the Danish Virgin Islands, to the United States for $25 million.
  • Day 4-8 year 1944: Anne Frank and her family were found hiding in Amsterdam by Nazis.
  • Day 4-8 year 1964: The bodies of three civil-rights workers were found in an earthen dam, six weeks into a federal investigation backed by President Johnson
  • Day 4-8 year 1977: President Carter signed a congressional act that established the Department of Energy.
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