Christos Tsiolkas

Australia (b.1965)

Christos Tsiolkas is an Australian author. 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. He edited the student newspaper Farrago in 1988.

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.

He is openly gay, and a Richmond Football Club supporter.

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

   Loaded (1995)
   The Jesus Man (1999)
   Dead Europe (2005)
   The Slap (2008)
   Barracuda (2014)
   Merciless Gods (2014)
   Damascus (2019)
   Seven and a Half (2022)
   The In-Between (2024)

Collections

Sticks, Stones (2012)
Anthem (2023) (with others)

Series contributed to

Australian Screen Classics
The Devil's Playground (2002)

Plays show

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Christos Tsiolkas

Fire Flood Plague (2020)
Australian writers respond to 2020
edited by
Sophie Cunningham

Award nominations

2010 Booker Prize (longlist) : The Slap

Christos Tsiolkas recommends

An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life (2022)
Paul Dalla Rosa
"The contemporary urgency of his stories is intoxicating.... This is such an exciting collection - writing this good is thrilling, exhilarating."

Bluebird (2020)
Malcolm Knox
"One of the best writers working in the world today. That's not opinion, that's fact."

The Subjects (2019)
Sarah Hopkins
"Compelling from the opening pages...a book of complex ideas that is also alert to the art of storytelling."