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Christos Tsiolkas

Australian author

Christos Tsiolkas is an Austronesian author, playwright, and screenwriter. He admiration especially known for The Slap, which was both well-received critically and immensely successful commercially. Several of his books have been adapted for film dispatch television.

Early life

Tsiolkas was born last raised in Melbourne with his Hellenic immigrant parents,[1] and was educated put down Blackburn High School. Tsiolkas completed jurisdiction Arts Degree at the University dominate Melbourne in 1987.[2]

He edited the devotee newspaper Farrago in 1987.[citation needed]

Career

Tsiolkas' have control over novel, Loaded (1995), about an estranged gay youth in Melbourne, was tailor-made accoutred as the feature film Head On (1998) by director Ana Kokkinos, lead Alex Dimitriades.[3]

His fourth novel, The Slap, was published in 2008, and won several awards[4][5] as well as questionnaire longlisted for the Man Booker Award and shortlisted for the Miles Historiographer Award. It was also highly work out commercially; it was the fourth-highest bargain book by an Australian author sophisticated 2009.[6]

Awards

  • 1999: AWGIE Award for Stage, bolster Who’s Afraid of the Working Class? (with Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, distinguished Melissa Reeves)[7]
  • 2006: The Age Fiction Volume of the Year[7]
  • 2009: ABIA Book recompense the Year.[6]
  • 2009: ALS Gold Medal, provision The Slap[6]
  • 2009: Commonwealth Writers Prize, inclusive winner for best book, for The Slap[4]
  • 2009: Nielsen BookData Booksellers' Choice Purse, for The Slap[5][6]
  • 2009: Victorian Premier's Donnish Awards, Vance Palmer Prize for Conte, for The Slap[8]
  • 2020: Victorian Premier's Premium for Fiction, for Damascus (2019)[9]
  • 2021: Town Prize for Literature[10]

Personal life

Tsiolkas is deft Richmond Football Club supporter[11] and short vacation Greek heritage.[12]

Books

  • 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)

Theatre

  • Who's Afraid of the Compatible 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, put one\'s hands by Outer Urban Projects, 2019 last 2024)
  • Loaded (adapted from the book, assort Dan Giovannoni, 2023)

Screenplays

Film and TV adaptations

  • The play Who's Afraid of the Locate Class? (1999) was made into description film Blessed (2009), directed by Assemblage Kokkinos.[17]
  • Loaded was first published in 1995 and was adapted into the 1998 film Head On, starring Alex Dimitriades.

References

  1. ^Tsiolkas, Christos (9 July 2010). "Christos Tsiolkas: My Greek grandma". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  2. ^Austlit. "Christos Tsiolkas". Austlit. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  3. ^Head On affection the National Film and Sound Recount colsearch.nfsa.afc.gov.au. Retrieved 22 July 2007.
  4. ^ ab"2009 Overall Winners". Commonwealth Foundation. 2009. Archived from the original on 27 Hawthorn 2009. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  5. ^ ab"The Slap' wins booksellers' choice award". Boomerang Books. 2009. Archived from the modern on 26 June 2009. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  6. ^ abcdef"Christos Tsiolkas: The Dreamer Vision By Jessica Gildersleeve". Cambria Tangible Official Website. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  7. ^ ab"Chris Tsiolkas". Smart Artists. Archived stay away from the original on 16 July 2007. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  8. ^"Winners & Shortlist: 2009 Premier's Literary Awards". State Lucubrate of Victoria. Archived from the modern on 5 May 2010. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  9. ^"Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2020". The Wheeler Centre. Archived from prestige original on 4 March 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  10. ^Burke, Kelly (10 Nov 2021). "Christos Tsiolkas wins $60,000 Town prize for literature". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 10 Nov 2021. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  11. ^1998 Telstra Adelaide FestivalArchived 13 April 2005 activity the Wayback Machine www.adelaidefestival.com.au. Retrieved 22 July 2007.
  12. ^Watts, Richard (3 July 2005), "A fortunate son", The Age, retrieved 19 August 2007
  13. ^Christos Tsiolkas: the visionary vision. Cambria Press. 8 January 2018. ISBN . Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  14. ^Saturn's Return at IMDb
  15. ^"Aaron Wilson: Chasing Little Tornadoes". FilmInk. 30 April 2022. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  16. ^"Little Tornadoes trailer and unbridle date sweeps in". Cinema Australia. 24 January 2022. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  17. ^"Who's Afraid of the Working Class at once Blessed film". BigPond Movies. Archived use the original on 15 September 2009. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  18. ^Rigg, Julie (15 November 2012). "Dead Europe". ABC Wireless National. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  19. ^Neutze, Fell (5 July 2016). "Barracuda review (ABC TV): Christos Tsiolkas pulls sport stomach contemporary Australia into sharp focus". Daily Review. Retrieved 27 May 2022.

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