Australian · b. 1965
Christos Tsiolkas earned a 2010 Booker Prize longlist for "The Slap," a novel about the fallout when a man slaps someone else's child at a barbecue. The Australian author uses ensemble narratives to examine contemporary suburban life, especially the tensions around class, race, and masculinity in multicultural Australia. Tsiolkas writes about ordinary life as a site of conflict and negotiation.