International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award 2002

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The 2003 Award

Dirt Music

by Tim Winton

Nominated by:

National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia
State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
State Library of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
State Library of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Dirt Music by Tim Winton

Publisher of Nominated Edition: Picador ISBN 0330363239

the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Her days have fallen into domestic tedium and social isolation. Her nights are a blur of vodka and pointless loitering in cyberspace. Leached of all confidence, Georgie has lost her way; she barely recognises herself.
One morning, in the boozy pre-dawn gloom, she looks up from the computer screen to see a shadow lurking on the beach below, and a dangerous new element enters her life. Luther Fox, the local poacher. Jinx. Outcast.
So begins an unlikely alliance. Set in the wild landscape of Western Australia, this is a novel about the odds of breaking with the past, a love story about people stifled by grief or regret, whose dreams are lost, whose hopes have dried up. It's a journey across landscapes within and without, about the music that sometimes arises from the dust.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tim Winton was born in Perth in 1960. He is the award-winning author of eighteen books, including novels for adults and children, short-story collections and non-fiction. He has won the Miles Franklin Award on three occasions: Dirt Music in 2002, Cloudstreet in 1992 and Shallows in 1984. The Riders was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1995 and Dirt Music was on the 2002 shortlist. His work has been translated into twelve languages and has been adapted for stage, radio and film. He lives in Western Australia with his wife and three children.

Find out more about the author on the following websites:

Excerpt from Dirt Music

Biography of Tim Winton

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