Would you slap a child who is not your own? Bestselling author Christos Tsiolkas talks about his blisteringly good novel The Slap, where he turns his blowtorch onto the belly of middle-class suburban Australia and its notions of child-rearing and acceptable behaviour. He speaks with Leigh Sales.
CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS (INTERSTATE) CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS is the author of Loaded, which was made into the feature film Head On, The Jesus Man and Dead Europe, which won the 2006 Age Fiction Prize and the 2006 Melbourne Best Writing Award. His latest novel, The Slap, has been shortlisted for the Best Book Award in the South East Asia/ South Pacific region of the 2009 Commonwealth Writer's Prize. He is also a playwright, essayist and screenwriter.
LEIGH SALES (LOCAL) LEIGH SALES currently presents ABC TV's Lateline program and was previously ABC's national security correspondent from 2006 to 2008. From 2001 to 2005, she was Washington correspondent, during which time she won a Walkley for her reporting of Guantanamo Bay, and received a second nomination for her coverage of Hurricane Katrina. Her first book, Detainee 002: the Case of David Hicks, won the prestigious 2007 George Munster Award for Independent Journalism. Leigh is the author of the essay On Doubt.
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