C.J. Koch

Emerging from Hobart, Tasmania, where he completed his schooling and earned an honours degree in arts at the University of Tasmania, he entered journalism with the ABC before a stint in London that sparked his literary ambitions. After early poems appeared in The Bulletin, his debut novel The Boys in the Island was published in the UK, leading him to pursue writing full-time in 1972; a Stanford fe… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources