Christos Tsiolkas is the author of eight novels, including Loaded, which was made into the feature film Head-On, The Jesus Man and Dead Europe, which won the 2006 Age Fiction Prize and was made into a feature film. His fourth novel, the international bestseller The Slap, won Overall Best Book in the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2009, and the 2009 Australian Booksellers Association and Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year. Christos’s fifth novel, Barracuda, was shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal and the inaugural Voss Literary Prize. The Slap and Barracuda were both adapted into celebrated television series.

His sixth novel, Damascus, won the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction. 7½ was published in 2021, when Christos won the Melbourne Prize for Literature. Christos is also a playwright, essayist and screen writer.