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Australian novelist Tim Winton has officially been named a "Living Treasure" by the country's national trust. His latest novel focuses on Western Australia's resource and mining boom and its effect of the country and people.

Eleanor Wachtel interviews the "literary wunderkind of West Australia," Tim Winton, live at the Manulife Literary Arts Festival in Victoria, B.C. At 36, he's already published 13 books in as many years. His last novel, The Riders, was short-listed for the Booker Prize.