His name first became familiar to Australian readers during the ‘grunge lit’ period of the 1990s. Because I didn’t feel separate from the things that were disgusting me.Ĭhristos Tsiolkas, Journal of Intercultural Studies 2013īorn in Australia in 1965 to parents who had emigrated from Greece, Christos Tsiolkas grew up in suburban, working-class Melbourne. I also had to put my Greekness in the middle of that book. And to do that, honestly, I had to put myself in the middle of it. A middle class culture that struck me as incredibly selfish and ungenerous … I wanted to try and write a book … that represented that culture. The slap that I wanted to deliver with that book was to a culture in Australia that had literally made me sick, sick to the stomach. Watch a short video on this text from the Books That Made Us series, available via ABC Education! Essay by Kerryn Goldsworthy
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