AWW22 7 ½ - Christos Tsiolkas

Chaired by Michael Williams


In Christos Tsiolkas’s first foray into autofiction, 7½, his
protagonist Christos declares he is tired of the lofty ambitions
many novelists hold for their writing on politics, sexuality,
race, history, gender, morality or the future. “All of them now
bore me,” he declares. Instead, he will write about beauty. His
powerful memories of the past, the strange present in which he
tries to write – surrounded by the magnificently evoked natural
world – and the novel on which he embarks are masterfully woven
together into one compelling whole.