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Slap author Christos Tsiolkas takes swipe at 'dry' European fiction

European books are 'academic in a cheap, shitey way', says Australian who wrote Booker-longlisted novel The Slap

The author of the Booker-longlisted novel The Slap – which has been published to a storm of both dazzled praise and furious accusations of misogyny – has hit out at the quality of European fiction, calling it "dry" and "academic in a cheap, shitey way".

From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk

Sunday, 15 August, 2010

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