Christos Tsiolkas: 7 1/2
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Thursday, 31 Mar 2022, 12:00pm - 03:30pm

The acclaimed author of novels such as The Slap, Damascus and Barracuda, Christos Tsiolkas is known as one of Australia’s most beloved – and provocative – writers. In his latest novel, 7½, a novelist arrives in a secluded coastal town to escape the self-congratulatory moralism of the modern world and immerse himself in the beauty of nature. Here, he begins to write a book about an ageing ex-pornstar offered one last impossible-to-refuse job, and so begins a meditation on the choice between beauty and righteousness.
In our first Montalto event for the year, Tsiolkas will join Angela Savage for a conversation about the power and transformative mysteries of art, creativity and transgression, as well as the moral crises affecting contemporary fiction. Enjoy a delicious lunch and thought-provoking conversation with a writer whose warmth and insight flows through even his most challenging work.
Presented in partnership with Montalto
The bookseller for this event is Antipodes Bookshop and Gallery
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Christos Tsiolkas is the author of six 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 the 2006 Melbourne Best Writing Award, as well as being made into a feature film. His fourth novel, the international... Read more

Angela Savage is an award-winning Melbourne author. Her first novel, Behind the Night Bazaar, won the 2004 Victorian Premiers’ Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. All three of her Jayne Keeney PI novels, set in Thailand, have been shortlisted for Ned Kelly Awards, with the most recen... Read more
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