Christos Tsiolkas
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Biography
He was born and grew up in MelbourneMelbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
and was educated at Blackburn High School
Blackburn High School
Blackburn High School is a public secondary school for girls and boys in years 7 to 12 in Blackburn, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The school has traditionally had a strong music curriculum, with its varied bands and orchestras consistently winning state and national awards...
and the University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...
where he completed an Arts Degree in 1987.Agent Details www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 2007-07-22. He edited the student newspaper Farrago
Farrago
First published on 3 April 1925, Farrago is Australia's oldest student newspaper. Farrago is published by the Melbourne University Student Union.- Name :...
in 1988.
Tsiolkas' first novel, Loaded (1995), was filmed as Head On
Head On (1998 film)
Head On is a 1998 award-winning Australian film directed by Ana Kokkinos. Based on the acclaimed novel Loaded written by Christos Tsiolkas, it stars Alex Dimitriades as a young gay man of Greek descent, living in the inner city of Melbourne. The film gained notoriety upon its release for its sexual...
(1998) by director Ana Kokkinos
Ana Kokkinos
Ana Kokkinos is an Australian film director. Kokkinos was born in Melbourne and prior to her career in film, she worked as an industrial lawyer...
, starring Alex Dimitriades
Alex Dimitriades
Alex Dimitriades is a Greek Australian film and television actor.-Early life:Dimitriades was born in Sydney, the son of first generation Greek immigrants and is the youngest of three siblings . He grew up in the suburb of Earlwood...
. In 2006, his novel, Dead Europe, won The Age Book of the Year
The Age Book of the Year
The Age Book of the Year Awards are annual literary awards presented by Melbourne's The Age newspaper. The awards were first presented in 1974. Since 1998 they have been presented as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival...
fiction award. In 2009, his fourth novel, The Slap
The Slap
The Slap is a novel by Australian author Christos Tsiolkas. The eight-part television series, The Slap, is an adaptation of the book. Its filming commenced in January 2011 and first screened on Australian television channel ABC1 from October 2011....
, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2009 for best novel in the South-East Asia and South Pacific area.
He is openly
Coming out
Coming out is a figure of speech for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people's disclosure of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity....
gay
Gay
Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....
, and a Richmond Football Club
Richmond Football Club
The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...
supporter.
Books
- Loaded (1995)
- Jump Cuts (with Sasha Soldatow, 1996)
- The Jesus Man (1999)
- The Devil's Playground (2002)
- Dead Europe (2005)
- The Slap (2008)
Theatre
- Who's Afraid of the Working Class? (with Andrew Bovell, Melissa Reeves and Patricia Cornelius, 1999, adapted for film as BlessedBlessed (2009 film)Blessed is a 2009 drama film. It was released in Australia on 10 September 2009. It stars Miranda Otto and Frances O'Connor. It is a film adaptation of the play Who's Afraid of the Working Class?....
) - 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)
Reviews, interviews, articles
- Authers, Ben. "'I’m Not Australian, I’m Not Greek, I’m Not Anything': Identity and the Multicultural Nation in Christos Tsiolkas’s Loaded". JASAL 4 (2005): 133-146.
- Cañadas, Ivan. "A Sin That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Class and Sexuality in Christos Tsiolkas’s Loaded and Anna Kokkinos’s Head On", Overland 177 (Summer 2004): 43-7.
- Cañadas, Ivan."Exhuming History: Neo-Conservatism and Christos Tsiolkas’s Dead Europe (2005)". Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice (2007)
- Dowse, Sara. Review of Dead Europe. "Blasphemous, Disturbing and Brilliant". The Canberra Times (18 June 2005): 13.
- Hunn, Deborah. "'It's not that I can't decide; I don’t like definitions': Queer in Australia in Christos Tsiolkas's Loaded and Anna Kokkinos's Head On". Territories of Desire in Queer Culture: Refiguring Contemporary Boundaries. Ed. David Alderson & Linda Anderson (Manchester & New York: Manchester UP, 2000), pp. 112–29.
- Joseph, Laura. "'Gardening in Hell': Abject Presence and Sublime Present in Dead Europe and The Vintner’s Luck". JASAL, Special Issue: "The Colonial Present: Australian Writing for the 21st Century". Eds. Gillian Whitlock & Victoria Kuttainen (2008): 105-13.
- Manne, Robert. Review of Dead Europe. "Dead Disturbing: A Bloodthirsty Tale that Plays with the Fire of Anti-Semitism". The Monthly (June 2005): 50–53.
- McCann, Andrew, Jeff Sparrow and Christen Cornell. "The Spectres Haunting Dead Europe". Overland 181 (2005): 26–31.
- McMahon, Elizabeth. "Lost in Music". Meanjin 2 (July 2000): 166-177. [Essay on music and dance in Loaded and Head On].
- McQueen, Humphrey. "Dead Europe . . ." Book Talk (Interviewed by Jill Kitson) Radio National (2 July 2005)
- Padmore, Catherine. "Blood and Land and ghosts': Haunting words in in Christos Tsiolkas' Dead Europe" JASAL Special Issue 2007
- Rosenblatt, Les. Review of Dead Europe. "A Place Where Wolves Fuck". Arena 79 (2005): 46–48.
- Strong, Christopher. "Christos Tsiolkas - Sex, Drugs and Responsibility". ARTiculation (December 2009): 2-3.
- Syson, Ian. "Smells like Market Spirit: Grunge, Literature, Australia." Overland 142 (1996): 21–26.
- Syson, Ian. Review of Dead Europe. The Age (28 May 2005)
- Treagus, Mandy. "A Queer Kind of Belonging: Identity: Identity and Nation in Christos Tsiolkas's Loaded". CRNLE Journal (2000): 219-27.
- Tsiolkas, Christos. "Aleka Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: Some Musings on Suburbia, Migration and Film". Cinema Papers 117 (June 1997): 30-32.
- Tsiolkas, Christos and Patricia Cornelius. "Politics, Faith and Sex: Overland Lecture — Christos Tsiolkas in Conversation with Patricia Cornelius". Overland 181 (2005): 18–25.
- Tsiolkas interviewed by Gareth Beal about Dead Europe. Good Reading (July 2005): 26.
- Zabala-Notaras, Gabriela and Ismet Redzovic. Dead Europe review. "Writing Off Europe." World Socialist Web Site (16 November 2005)