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Christopher J. Koch

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July 16, 1932 in Hobart, Australia

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Christopher Koch was born and educated in Tasmania. For a good deal of his life he was a broadcasting producer, working for the ABC in Sydney. He has lived and worked in London and elsewhere overseas. He has been a fulltime writer since 1972, winning international praise and a number of awards for his novels, many of which are translated in a number of European countries. One of his novels, The YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY, was made into a film by Peter Weir and was nominated for an Academy Award. He has twice won the Miles Franklin award for fiction: for THE DOUBLEMAN and HIGHWAYS TO A WAR. In 1995 Koch was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for his contribution to Australian literature.

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Average rating: 3.64 · 536 ratings · 83 reviews · 9 distinct works

	The Year of Living Dangerously 3.67 avg rating — 340 ratings — published 1978 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Highways to a War 3.99 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1995 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Memory Room 3.05 avg rating — 61 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Out Of Ireland 3.85 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Doubleman 3.27 avg rating — 15 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	THE MANY-COLOURED LAND: A Return to Ireland 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Across The Sea Wall 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ireland Travel Book 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	Crossing The Gapa Novelist's Essays 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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