In early 2007, Syndey PEN commissioned 'The 3 Writers Project', a series of essays and public lectures in which three of our leading and acclaimed writers - Christos Tsiolkas, Gideon Haigh and Alexis Wright - tackled topics of vital importance to contemporary Australia: tolerance, prejudice and fear. This impassioned and provocative trinity of essays, introduced by Nobel Laureate, J. M. Coetzee, is testament to the linguistic power and fierce intellect of these significant writers.
Author
Christos Tsiolkas is the author of nine novels: Loaded, which was made into the feature film Head-On, The Jesus Man and Dead Europe,which won the 2006 Age Fiction Prize and the 2006 Melbourne Best Writing Award. He won Overall Best Book in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2009, was shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award, long listed for the 2010 Man Booker Prize and won the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal for The Slap, which was also announced as the 2009 Australian Booksellers Association and Australian Book Industry Awards Books of the Year. Barracuda is his fifth novel. Merciless Gods (2014) and Damascus (2019) followed. He is also a playwright, essayist and screen writer. He lives in Melbourne.
