Christos Tsiolkas is, in both a popular and a critical sense, one of the most prominent literary figures in Australia today. He has published five novels, numerous short stories (including a recent ...

Christos Tsiolkas’s eighth novel, The In-Between, is a work of social realism set in the immediate present – a return to the form and style of some of his most popular novels. This follows his ...

CHRISTOS Tsiolkas had already settled on swimming as the sport that would consume the life of the “Barracuda” - the title of the new novel by the best-selling author of The Slap. When butterfly ...

"Saint Paul Writing His Epistles," by Valentin de Boulogne (Wikimedia Commons). Christos Tsiolkas’s Damascus brings us into a violent, miserable, fallen world. The Australian author’s most recent ...

Talking to people about The Slap reveals a range of responses, but one opinion is shared: author Christos Tsiolkas has “nailed it” in terms of family tensions. If people have struggled to keep ...

In the opening pages of Christos Tsiolkas’ fifth novel, Barracuda (Allen & Unwin; $32.99), a man stands on the shore of a Scottish loch. “The girls and the women are all in bikinis, the boys and the ...

Dead Europe, by Christos Tsiolkas, Sydney: Random House, 2005, 411 pp. Dead Europe, Christos Tsiolkas’s third novel, is a deeply disturbing work. The author believes in a Europe that is monolithically ...

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As well Paul’s voice, Tsiolkas brings us those of Thomas, Timothy, Vrasas, a Roman soldier, and Lydia, who was, apparently, the first non-Jewish convert to Christianity. Tsiolkas sees Paul as a man ...

This astute exploration of suburban aspirations and failings, winner of the Commonwealth Prize and Tsiolkas's first novel to be published in the U.S., opens at a barbecue in Melbourne, Australia, ...

Christos Tsiolkas is an Australian born to Greek immigrant parents whose breakthrough novel, ‘The Slap’, was longlisted for the Booker prize in 2010. He talks about religion, shame and his most recent ...