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Christopher Koch

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Christopher Koch, 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.

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)

Further reading

Noel Henricksen, Island and Otherland: Christopher Koch and his books (Educare, 2003).

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