Christos is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, essayist, playwright and film critic for The Saturday Paper. His novels include Loaded, which was made into the

feature film Head-On, The Jesus Man and Dead Europe - also adapted to film - 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, longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize and won the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal for his novel, The Slap, which was also announced as the 2009 Australian Booksellers Association and Australian Book Industry Awards Books of the Year and of course was adapted to TV to great - and deserved - success.