Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas is the author of eight novels, including Loaded, Head-On, The Jesus Man and Dead Europe. His fourth novel, the international bestseller
The Slap, won Overall Best Book in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2009, was shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award, longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize and won the Australian Literary Society Gold, and was also named Book of the Year for 2009 by the Australian Booksellers Association and the Australian Book Industry Awards.
Christos's fifth novel, Barracuda,was shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal and the inaugural Voss Literary Prize. Christos's acclaimed collection of short stories, Merciless Gods, was published in 2014 and his critical literary study On Patrick White came out in 2018. His sixth novel, Damascus, was published in 2019 and won the 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction. 7½ was published in 2021. In the same year, Christos won the Melbourne Prize for Literature. The In-Between, his most recent work,
was published in 2023.
His work has been adapted to film and television to much
acclaim. Christos is also a playwright, essayist and
screen writer. He lives in Melbourne.
The Slap, won Overall Best Book in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2009, was shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award, longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize and won the Australian Literary Society Gold, and was also named Book of the Year for 2009 by the Australian Booksellers Association and the Australian Book Industry Awards.
Christos's fifth novel, Barracuda,was shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal and the inaugural Voss Literary Prize. Christos's acclaimed collection of short stories, Merciless Gods, was published in 2014 and his critical literary study On Patrick White came out in 2018. His sixth novel, Damascus, was published in 2019 and won the 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction. 7½ was published in 2021. In the same year, Christos won the Melbourne Prize for Literature. The In-Between, his most recent work,
was published in 2023.
His work has been adapted to film and television to much
acclaim. Christos is also a playwright, essayist and
screen writer. He lives in Melbourne.
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