Everything about Tara June Winch totally explained
Tara June Winch (born
2 December 1983) is an
indigenous Australian writer. Her first book,
Swallow the Air, won several major Australian literary awards.
Life
Winch was born in
Wollongong, New South Wales, of
Wiradjuri, Afghan and English heritage. She is studying for a Bachelor or Arts degree at the
University of Wollongong. Prior to that she travelled around Australia, spent five months in a
Buddhist nunnery, travelled to India and lived in a
Tibetan refugee community school. She has one daughter.
Writing
Her first novel,
Swallow the air, won several awards. The judges for the
Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelists award wrote that the book "is distinguished by its natural grace and vivid language" and that "As with many first books it deals with issues of family, growing up and stepping into the world. But it strives to connect these experiences to broader social issues, though never in a didactic fashion". Thuy On writes that "
Swallow the Air can either be read as a novel with short chapters or as a series of inter-linked short stories" and describes Winch's style in the following words: "in between prose of unvarnished vernacular, Winch offers lyrical sentences that delight in startling metaphorical allusions".
Winch has also had been published in
Best Australian Stories 2005, the
Griffith Review,
The Bulletin,
The Sydney Morning Herald and
The Age.
Awards and nominations
Bibliography
Swallow the air (University of Queensland Press, 2006 ISBN 0702235210)Further Information
Get more info on 'Tara June Winch'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://tara_june_winch.totallyexplained.com">Tara June Winch Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
