Damascus

Christos Tsiolkas is the author of six novels, including Loaded, which was made into the feature film Head-On. His other novels include The Jesus Man and Dead Europe, which won the 2006 Age Fiction Prize and the 2006 Melbourne Best Writing Award, and was adapted into a feature film.

His fourth novel, the international bestseller The Slap, won Overall Best Book in the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2009, was shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award, longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, and won the Australian Literary Society Gold, as well as the 2009 Australian Booksellers Association and Australian Book Industry Awards Books of the Year. The Slap was adapted into a celebrated television series.

Christos’s fifth novel Barracuda was shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal and the inaugural Voss Literary Prize, and was also adapted into a celebrated television series.

His acclaimed collection of short stories, Merciless Gods, was published in 2014, and his critical literary study On Patrick White came out in 2018. His latest novel, Damascus, was published in 2019 and won the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction.

He is also a playwright, essayist, and screenwriter, and lives in Melbourne.

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