Christos Tsiolkas

Christos Tsiolkas (born 1965) is an Australian author.

Early life

He was born and raised in Melbourne with his Greek immigrant parents,[1] and was educated at Blackburn High School. Tsiolkas completed his Arts Degree at the University of Melbourne in 1987.[2] He edited the student newspaper Farrago in 1987.

Career

Tsiolkas' first novel, Loaded (1995), was filmed as Head On (1998) by director Ana Kokkinos, starring Alex Dimitriades.[3] In 2006, his novel Dead Europe won The Age Book of the Year fiction award and was adapted into a film in 2012. In 2009, his fourth novel, The Slap, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2009 for best novel in the South-East Asia and South Pacific area. The Slap has been turned into both an Australian and U.S. television miniseries. Barracuda was adapted for television in 2016.

Personal life

Tsiolkas is a Richmond Football Club supporter[4] and openly gay.[5]

Books

  • Loaded (1995)
  • Jump Cuts (with Sasha Soldatow, 1996)
  • The Jesus Man (1999)
  • The Devil's Playground (2002)
  • Dead Europe (2005)
  • The Slap (2008)
  • Barracuda (2013)
  • Tsiolkas, Christos (2014), Merciless Gods, Australia Allen & Unwin, ISBN 978-1-74343-921-0

Theatre

  • Who's Afraid of the Working Class? (with Andrew Bovell, Melissa Reeves and Patricia Cornelius, 1999, adapted for film as Blessed)
  • Elektra AD (1999)
  • Viewing Blue Poles (2000)
  • Fever (with Andrew Bovell, Melissa Reeves and Patricia Cornelius, 2002)
  • Dead Caucasians (2002)
  • Non Parlo di Salo (with Spiro Economopoulos, 2005)
  • The Hit (with Netta Yashin 2006)

Screenplays

  • Thug (with Spiro Economopoulos, 1998)
  • Saturn's Return (2000)

2006 "The Hit" Parallelo Theatre

References

  1. ↑ The Guardian, Saturday 10 July 2010: "Christos Tsiolkas, whose parents emigrated from Greece..."
  2. ↑ Agent Details www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 22 July 2007.
  3. ↑ Head On at the National Film and Sound Archive colsearch.nfsa.afc.gov.au. Retrieved 22 July 2007.
  4. ↑ 1998 Telstra Adelaide Festival Archived 13 April 2005 at the Wayback Machine. www.adelaidefestival.com.au. Retrieved 22 July 2007.
  5. ↑ Watts, Richard (3 July 2005), "A fortunate son", The Age, retrieved 19 August 2007
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