Christopher John Koch

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Christopher John Koch , AO (born July 16, 1932 in Hobart , † September 22, 2013 in Richmond (Tasmania) ) was an Australian writer .

Life

Koch was born in Hobart, Tasmania in 1932 . From 1946 to 1950 he attended various schools and studied from 1951 to 1954 literature at the University of Tasmania , which later awarded him an honorary doctorate. At the age of 16 he was already working as a photographer and cartoonist for the Hobart Mercury . He lived in London for some time but returned to Australia to avoid British military service. He then worked for almost 10 years as a producer and news anchor for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney .

Koch published his first novel The Boys in the Island in 1958 and has worked exclusively as a writer since 1972. For this he first went back to Tasmania, but lived time and again in various other places.

His best known work is the novel The Year of Living Dangerously (dt. The Year of Living Dangerously ) from 1978, the 1982 by Peter Weir with Sigourney Weaver , Mel Gibson and Linda Hunt was filmed in the lead roles ( The Year of Living Dangerously ). Koch is also named as a co-writer of the script, although he and Weir had a falling out over the casting of a male role in the novel by Linda Hunt. Koch received literary recognition for his novels The Doubleman (1985) and Highways to a War (1996), for which he was awarded the Miles Franklin Award .

For his services to Australian literature, he was awarded the title of Officer of the Order of Australia in 1995 .

Koch died of cancer in autumn 2013. He was married twice; his son from his first marriage is the classical guitarist and music teacher Gareth Koch.

Works

  • The Boys in the Island (novel, 1958)
  • Across the Sea Wall (novel, 1965)
  • The Year of Living Dangerously (Roman, 1978)
  • The Doubleman (novel, 1985)
  • Crossing the Gap: a Novelist's Essays (Essays, 1993)
  • Highways to a War (novel, 1995)
  • Out of Ireland (Novel, 1999)
  • The Memory Room (novel, 2007)
  • Lost Voices (Roman, 2012)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Year of Living Dangerously author CJ Koch dies at 81 on BBC News September 27, 2013, accessed September 29, 2013
  2. ↑ CJ Koch. In: Encyclopædia Britannica (English).
  3. ↑ a b c d http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4517/Koch-C-hristopher-J-ohn.html
  4. ↑ a b http://www.abc.net.au/tv/firsttuesday/s2101093.htm
  5. ↑ http://www.imdb.de/name/nm0462272
  6. ↑ It's an Honor. Australian Government, accessed July 23, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Christopher John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Hobart , Australia
DATE OF DEATH 22nd September 2013
Place of death Richmond , Australia