CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS

'Christos Tsiolkas' (b. 1965) is an Australian author.Agent Details www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 2007-07-22. 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.^[1] In 2006, his novel, ''Dead Europe'', won The Age Book of the Year fiction award.
He is openly gay,^[2] and a Richmond Football Club supporter.^[3]

Contents

Books

Theatre

Screenplays

References

External link

Books

★ ''Loaded'' (1995)

★ ''Jump Cuts'' (with Sasha Soldatow, 1996)

★ ''The Jesus Man'' (1999)

★ ''The Devil's Playground'' (2002)

★ ''Dead Europe'' (2005)

Theatre

★ ''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)

Screenplays

★ ''Thug'' (with Spiro Economopoulos, 1998)

★ ''Saturn's Return'' (2000)

References

1. Head On at the National Film and Sound Archive colsearch.nfsa.afc.gov.au. Retrieved 2007-07-22.
2.
3. 1998 Telstra Adelaide Festival www.adelaidefestival.com.au. Retrieved 2007-07-22.

External link

★ Entry on ''Smartartists''