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Christos Tsiolkas is an Australian author, playwright, and screenwriter. He is especially known for The Slap, which was both well-received critically and highly successful commercially. Several of his books have been adapted for film and television.
Christos Tsiolkas | |
|---|---|
| Born | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Education | University of Melbourne |
| Occupation(s) | Author, playwright, screenwriter |
Tsiolkas 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.[citation needed]
Tsiolkas' first novel, Loaded (1995), about an alienated gay youth in Melbourne, was adapted as the feature film Head On (1998) by director Ana Kokkinos, starring Alex Dimitriades.[3]
His fourth novel, The Slap, was published in 2008, and won several awards[4][5] as well as being longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. It was also highly successful commercially; it was the fourth-highest selling book by an Australian author in 2009.[6]
- 1999: AWGIE Award for Stage, for Who’s Afraid of the Working Class? (with Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, and Melissa Reeves)[7]
- 2006: The Age Fiction Book of the Year[7]
- 2009: ABIA Book of the Year.[6]
- 2009: ALS Gold Medal, for The Slap[6]
- 2009: Commonwealth Writers Prize, overall winner for best book, for The Slap[4]
- 2009: Nielsen BookData Booksellers' Choice Award, for The Slap[5][6]
- 2009: Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, for The Slap[8]
- 2020: Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction, for Damascus (2019)[9]
- 2021: Melbourne Prize for Literature[10]
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Tsiolkas is a Richmond Football Club supporter[11] and of Greek heritage.[12]
- 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)
- Merciless Gods (2014)
- Damascus (2019)
- 7 1/2 (2021)
- The In-Between (2023)
- Who's Afraid of the Working Class? (with Andrew Bovell, Melissa Reeves and Patricia Cornelius, 1999)
- 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)
- The Audition (with Melissa Reeves, Milad Norouzi, Patricia Cornelius, Sahra Davoudi, Tes Lyssiotis and Wahibe Moussa, produced by Outer Urban Projects, 2019 and 2024)
- Loaded (adapted from the book, with Dan Giovannoni, 2023)
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- Thug (1998), short film, with Spiro Economopoulos)[13][6]
- Saturn's Return (2001),[a] a telemovie starring Joel Edgerton and Damian Walshe-Howling[14]
- Little Tornadoes (2021), co-written with director Aaron Wilson[15][16]
- The play Who's Afraid of the Working Class? (1999) was made into the film Blessed (2009), directed by Ana Kokkinos.[17]
- Loaded was first published in 1995 and was adapted into the 1998 film Head On, starring Alex Dimitriades.
- The 2006 novel Dead Europe was made into the film Dead Europe (2012), directed by Tony Krawitz and starring Kodi Smit-McPhee.[18]
- The Slap has been turned into both an Australian and U.S. television miniseries.[6]
- Barracuda was adapted for television in 2016.[19]
- Not to be confused with other plays and films of the same name
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