Loaded christos tsiolkas biography

Loaded is the first novel by Greek-Australian writer Christos Tsiolkas.
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.
The story takes place over roughly a 24 hour period of partying, sex and drugs in Melbourne.

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Approaching a book like Loaded feels in some ways like revisiting my teenage self. Although he's not at all like me on the surface there is all the familiar adolescent cynicism and rebellion which is still so easy to taste. The story takes place over roughly a 24 hour period of partying, sex and drugs in Melbourne. The protagonist Ari is a 19 year old Australian boy of Greek heritage who would scoff at being so neatly classified as he detests labels. “You're either Greek or Australian, you have to make a choice. Me, I'm neither. It's not that I can't decide; I don't like definitions.” Of course, his resistance to classification and being slotted into place is something that he hypocritically does all the time when viewing other people. He continuously defines the people he meets by their nationality or sexuality or their class (his most sneering contempt saved the married, employed, suburban people he defines as Wogs). For Ari labels like this are curiously hollowed out: “I want to tell her that words such as faggot, wog, poofter, gay, Greek, Australian, Croat are just excuses. Ju

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Christos Tsiolkas

Australian author

Christos Tsiolkas is an Australian author, playwright, and screenwriter.^[1] He is especially known for The Slap, which was both well-received critically and highly successful commercially. Several of his books have been adapted for film and television.

Early life

Tsiolkas was born and raised in Melbourne with his Greek immigrant parents,^[2] and was educated at Blackburn High School. Tsiolkas completed his Arts Degree at the University of Melbourne in 1987.^[1]

He co-edited the student newspaper Farrago in 1987.^[3]

Career

Tsiolkas' first novel, Loaded (1995), about an alienated gay youth in Melbourne, was adapted as the feature film Head On (1998) by director Ana Kokkinos, starring Alex Dimitriades.^[4]

His fourth novel, The Slap, was published in 2008, and won several awards^[5]^[6] as well as being longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. It was also highly successful commercially; it was the fourth-h

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Loaded (novel)

1995 novel by Christos Tsiolkas

Loaded is the first novel by Greek-Australian writer Christos Tsiolkas.^[1] It was first published in 1995 by Vintage Books, and focuses on Ari, a nineteen-year-old second generation Greek-Australian in Melbourne.^[2] It follows a restless, unemployed Ari over twenty four hours as he spirals into drug use and casual sex. He is caught between the conservatism of his Greek background and modern Australia amid his homosexual desire.^[3]

In 1998, it was adapted by Greek-Australian director Ana Kokkinos for the film, Head On. Greek-Australian actor, Alex Dimitriades plays the protagonist, Ari.^[4]

Plot

The novel describes twenty-four hours in the life of Ari, an angst-ridden, young, gay second generation Greek Australian.^[1] Ari lives with his family in the Melbourne neighbourhood of Richmond and travels across taking speed, cocaine and marijuana whenever presented to him.^[5]^[6] He is uncomfortable with his homosexuality; he favours hook-ups with anonymo