- Christopher Koch
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- For the film and television director, see Chris Koch.
Christopher John Koch, AO, Australian novelist, was born in Hobart in 1932. He has twice won the Miles Franklin Award. In 1995 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for contribution to Australian literature.
His novel The Year of Living Dangerously, set in Jakarta during the fall of the Sukarno regime, was made into a film directed by Peter Weir and starring Sigourney Weaver, Mel Gibson and Linda Hunt. The book was loosely inspired by his brother's (Philip Koch) experience as an Australian journalist in Indonesia during that period.
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Awards
Miles Franklin Award The Doubleman, winner 1985 Highways to a War, winner 1996 The Memory Room, longlisted 2008 The Age Book of the Year Award The Year of Living Dangerously, 1978 Imaginative Writing Prize winner; 1978 Book of the Year, joint winner National Book Council Award for Australian Literature The Year of Living Dangerously, 1979 Colin Roderick Award Out of Ireland, 1999 Victorian Premier's Literary Award Out of Ireland, 2000 Books
- The Boys in the Island (1958, revised ed, Angus & Robertson, 1974)
- Across the Sea Wall (Heinemann, 1965)
- The Year of Living Dangerously (Nelson, 1978)
- The Doubleman (Chatto and Windus, 1985)
- Crossing the Gap: a novelist’s essays (Hogarth Press, 1993)
- Highways to a War (Heinemann, 1995)
- Out of Ireland (Doubleday, 1999)
- The Memory Room (2007)
Further reading
Noel Henricksen, Island and Otherland: Christopher Koch and his books (Educare, 2003).
External links
- Christopher Koch at Random House Australia
- Podcast of Christopher Koch discussing “Crossing the Gap: Asia and the Australian Imagination” at the Shanghai International Literary Festival
Miles Franklin Literary Award 1957–1970 Patrick White (1957) · Randolph Stow (1958) · Vance Palmer (1959) · Elizabeth O'Conner (1960) · Patrick White (1961) · Thea Astley / George Turner (1962) · Sumner Locke Elliott (1963) · George Johnston (1964) · Thea Astley (1965) · Peter Mathers (1966) · Thomas Keneally (1967) · Thomas Keneally (1968) · George Johnston (1969) · Dal Stivens (1970)
1971–1980 David Ireland (1971) · Thea Astley (1972) · No award (1973) · Ronald McKie (1974) · Xavier Herbert (1975) · David Ireland (1976) · Ruth Park (1977) · Jessica Anderson (1978) · David Ireland (1979) · Jessica Anderson (1980)
1981–1990 Peter Carey (1981) · Rodney Hall (1982) · No award (1983) · Tim Winton (1984) · Christopher Koch (1985) · Elizabeth Jolley (1986) · Glenda Adams (1987) · Date change (1988) · Peter Carey (1989) · Tom Flood (1990)
1991–2000 David Malouf (1991) · Tim Winton (1992) · Alex Miller (1993) · Rodney Hall (1994) · Helen Demidenko (1995) · Christopher Koch (1996) · David Foster (1997) · Peter Carey (1998) · Murray Bail (1999) · Thea Astley / Kim Scott (2000)
2001–2010 Frank Moorhouse (2001) · Tim Winton (2002) · Alex Miller (2003) · Shirley Hazzard (2004) · Andrew McGahan (2005) · Roger McDonald (2006) · Alexis Wright (2007) · Steven Carroll (2008) · Tim Winton (2009) · Peter Temple (2010)
2011–present Kim Scott (2011)
Categories:- 1932 births
- Australian novelists
- Living people
- Officers of the Order of Australia
- Writers from Tasmania
- Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 5th Class
- Australian writer stubs
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