Since his debut book, Loaded, was released in 1995 and turned into the movie Head On in 1998, Australian-born, Greek-ancestry author Christos Tsiolkas has published five books and established himself as a major literary figure.

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Tsiolkas is well-known for his 2008 book The Slap, which went on to win the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and numerous other honours, including Literary Fiction Book of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards. Both in Australia and the United States, this book has since been adapted into a TV miniseries. Tsiolkas is also a dramatist, essayist, and screenwriter.

The Slap is well known for its narrative which is presented through the viewpoints of eight individual characters, and focuses on their reactions after a man controversially reprimands his friend's son by slapping him during a social gathering!