Christos Tsiolkas





Christos Tsiolkas

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Christos Tsiolkas is an Australian author of Greek descent. He was born and grew up in Melbourne and was educated at Blackburn High School and the University of Melbourne where he completed an Arts Degree in 1987. Tsiolkas' first novel, Loaded (1995), was filmed as Head On (1998) by director Ana Kokkinos, starring Alex Dimitriades. In 2006, his novel, Dead Europe won The Age Book of the Year fiction award. 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.


Average rating: 3.07 · 6,500 ratings · 1,392 reviews · 10 distinct works
The Slap
3.05 of 5 stars 3.05 avg rating — 5,971 ratings — published 2001 — 32 editions
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Dead Europe
3.34 of 5 stars 3.34 avg rating — 214 ratings — published 2005 — 10 editions
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Loaded
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 1995 — 7 editions
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The Jesus Man
3.25 of 5 stars 3.25 avg rating — 48 ratings2 editions
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Jump Cuts
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings
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La Gifle
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008
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The Devil's Playground
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2002
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Nur eine Ohrfeige
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010
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“Hugo pulled away from Rosie’s teat. ‘No one is allowed to touch my body without my permission.’ His voice was shrill and confident. Hector wondered where he learnt those words. From Rosie? At child care? Were they community announcements on the frigging television?”
Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap

“In the three minutes it takes the song to play I'm caught in a magic world of harmony and joy, a truly ecstatic joy, where the aching longing to be somewhere else, out of this city, out of this country, out of this body and out of this life, is kept at bay.”
Christos Tsiolkas, Loaded

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