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Podcast 04/07/2018

Little Atoms podcast 520 - Tim Winton's The Shepherd's Hut


Tim Winton has published over 20 books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into many different languages. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian/Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). Active in the environmental movement, he is the Patron of the Australian Marine Conservation Society. He lives in Western Australia, and his latest novel is The Shepherd's Hut.

In the particle of me that cares for this, I betrayed those little atoms with a kiss