Christos Tsiolkas

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Christos Tsiolkas


Born
in Melbourne, Australia
January 01, 1965

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Christos Tsiolkas is the author of nine novels: 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. He won Overall Best Book in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2009, was shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award, long listed for the 2010 Man Booker Prize and won the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal for The Slap, which was also announced as the 2009 Australian Booksellers Association and Australian Book Industry Awards Books of the Year.
Barracuda is his fifth novel. Merciless Gods (2014) and Damascus (2019) followed.
He is also a playwright, essayist and screen writer. He lives in Melbourne.
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Average rating: 3.36 · 47,060 ratings · 5,635 reviews · 35 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Slap

3.23 avg rating — 29,752 ratings — published 2008 — 93 editions
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Barracuda

3.69 avg rating — 8,532 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions
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Loaded

3.61 avg rating — 2,045 ratings — published 1995 — 11 editions
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Damascus

3.54 avg rating — 1,947 ratings — published 2019 — 12 editions
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Dead Europe

3.23 avg rating — 1,423 ratings — published 2005 — 29 editions
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Merciless Gods

3.54 avg rating — 1,024 ratings — published 2014 — 13 editions
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7 1/2

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The Jesus Man

3.34 avg rating — 386 ratings — published 1999 — 12 editions
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On Patrick White

4.06 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions
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Jump Cuts

3.66 avg rating — 35 ratings
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“Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city.”
Christos Tsiolkas, Barracuda

“In reading he found solitude. In reading he could dispel the blare of the world.”
Christos Tsiolkas, Barracuda

“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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