Christos Tsiolkas is the author of eight novels, including 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, as well as being made into a feature
film. 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. The Slap and Barracuda
were both adapted into celebrated television series. 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. 7
was published in 2021. In the same year, Christos won the Melbourne
Prize for Literature. Christos is also a playwright, essayist and
screen writer. He lives in Melbourne.
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