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Christos Tsiolkas is an Australian author, playwright, and screenwriter. He is especially known for The Slap, which was both well-received critically and highly successful commercially. Several of his books have been adapted for film and television.
Christos Tsiolkas is the author of five novels: Loaded, which was made into the feature film Head-On, The Jesus Man and Dead Europe, which won the 2006 Age Fiction Prize and the 2006 Melbourne Best Writing Award.
May 28, 2024 · Tsiolkas, a Greek-Australian writer, has attracted awards and controversy since Loaded, his first novel in 1995, which was about a young man seeking drug-fuelled, anonymous sex.
Christos Tsiolkas is the author of nine novels: Loaded, which was made into the feature film Head-On, The Jesus Man and Dead Europe,which won the 2006 Age Fiction Prize and the 2006 Melbourne Best Writing Award.
Nov 12, 2023 · Christos Tsiolkas’s eighth novel, The In-Between, is a work of social realism set in the immediate present – a return to the form and style of some of his most popular novels.
Sep 23, 2024 · Presented by. Virginia Trioli. Beloved writer Christos Tsiolkas assures Virginia that he has moved on from his party boy past and settled into a new life of domestic bliss -- and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Nov 12, 2021 · Nobody had a laugh as explosive as Christos Tsiolkas. It was as if all absurdity, all outrageousness was kept bottled up inside this kind and friendly young man, but once triggered could seemingly never be contained again. You released his hilarity at your peril. It could dissolve everything.
Nov 10, 2021 · Christos Tsiolkas has form with the Melbourne Prize. It’s almost exactly 15 years ago that he won the inaugural $30,000 prize for best writing by a writer under the age of 40 for his fourth novel, Dead Europe.
Ten of the best Booker-nominated books by Australian authors. Christos Tsiolkas has personal experience of the far-reaching impact of a slap. When he was 18 and about to go to university, his uncle slapped him ‘somewhere between affection and a warning’ so as not to forget where he came from.
Christos Tsiolkas is an internationally bestselling and award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist, and screenwriter. His novel The Slap has sold more than one million copies worldwide and has been published in twenty-eight countries.
