Christos Tsiolkas, the ‘blasphemous’ artist and Barracuda
Australian author Christos Tsiolkas' critically-acclaimed novels and screenplays reflect our social and political responsibilities.
8 Jul 2016 12:00
Jessica Gildersleeve
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Writing and Publishing
Elias Anton as Danny Kelly in BarracudaABC
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 collection), as well as critical essays, plays and screenplays, and an experimental philosophical-autobiographical dialogue with Sasha Soldatow.
Jessica Gildersleeve is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Southern Queensland. Her research is concerned with the relationships between literature, emotion and ethics in writing since the nineteenth century.
She is the author of Elizabeth Bowen and the Writing of Trauma: The Ethics of Survival (Rodopi 2014) and editor of Victorian Vocabularies (Macquarie Lighthouse 2013), as well as articles on writers including Pat Barker, Rosamond Lehmann, Agatha Christie and Jean Rhys.
Her book on Christos Tsiolkas will be published by Cambria Press later this year.
