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There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent behind me as the sun tracks down to the sea. I have my bearings.

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Tim Winton
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 4
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Perth
Australia
Timothy John Winton
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