Christos Tsiolkas

Christos Tsiolkas is the author of eight novels – Loaded, The Jesus Man, Dead Europe, The Slap, Barracuda, Damascus, 7 ½, The In-Between - and the short story collection, Merciless Gods. Many of his works have been adapted for the stage and for the screen and have been published in multiple languages. He has written a monograph on Fred Schepisi’s The Devil’s Playground, for the Australian Screen Classics series, and a monograph On Patrick White, for the Writers in Writers series. He has collaborated with Patricia Cornelius, Andrew Bovell, Melissa Reeves and Irine Vela on the plays Who’s Afraid of the Working Class?, Fever, and Anthem, and was co-writer with Spiro Economopoulos on the play, Non Parlo di Salo. His other plays include Viewing Blue Poles, Dead Caucasians, and Carburettor, and the adaptation of Loaded, co-written with Dan Giovannoni. In 2022 the Adelaide Festival staged Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan, an oratorio written by Christos and Alana Valentine, with music composed by Joseph Twist. It was restaged at the Sydney Opera House in 2024. Christos is also a scriptwriter and essayist and a film critic.