7 1/2


Christos Tsiolkas

slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library

Main Festival

#Performances


#About the event


#Artist

Christos Tsiolkas

Christos Tsiolkas

Christos Tsiolkas is the author of seven 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, as well as the 2009 Australian Booksellers Association and Australian Book Industry Awards Books of the Year.

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. He is also a playwright, essayist and screen writer. He lives in Melbourne.



#More events

Last Chance Texaco (livestreamed)

slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library

What's Fair?

Main Festival

What's Fair?

slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library

Food Sovereignty

Country of Focus / Main Festival

Food Sovereignty

slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library

The Avoidable War

Sold Out

Main Festival

The Avoidable War

Google Tag Paste this code as high in the of the page as possible: