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Christopher Koch


Australia (1932 - 2013)

Christopher John Koch was born in Hobart in 1932. He twice won the Miles Franklin Award and 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.
 
 
Novels
   The Boys in the Island (1958)
   Across the Sea Wall (1965)
   The Year of Living Dangerously (1978)
   The Doubleman (1986)
   Highways to a War (1995)
   The Memory Room (2007)
   Lost Voices (2012)
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