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Christopher Koch (Christopher John Koch) was born on 16 July, 1932 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, is an Australian novelist (1932–2013). Discover Christopher Koch's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?

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Occupation Novelist
Age 81 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 16 July 1932
Birthday 16 July
Birthplace Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Date of death 23 September, 2013
Died Place Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Nationality Australia

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His wife is Irene Vilnois (m. 1959-1979) Robin Whyte-Butler

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1932

Christopher John Koch AO (16 July 1932 – 23 September 2013) was an Australian novelist, known for his 1978 novel The Year of Living Dangerously, which was adapted into an award-winning film.

Koch was born in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1932.

He was educated at Clemes College, St Virgil's College, Hobart High School and at the University of Tasmania.

Koch's admission to the university was controversial, with the professorial board refusing to admit him as he had not matriculated with a mathematics subject—however this refusal was overridden by the chancellor, John Morris, who was then accused of excessive intervention.

1954

After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in 1954, Koch joined the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) as a cadet journalist.

He left Hobart to travel in south Asia and Europe, and ended up in London where he worked for several years.

He returned to Australia to avoid national service in the British Army.

While working in London as a waiter and a teacher, Koch began working on his first novel, The Boys in the Island, which he left with his agent when he returned to Australia.

Koch's first published works were several poems published in The Bulletin and the literary journal Southerly.

While back at the ABC as a radio producer, The Boys in the Island was published in the UK.

1959

Koch married his first wife, Irene Vilnois, in 1959.

1960

In the early 1960s, Koch was awarded a writing fellowship to Stanford University, where he taught literature and was associated with Ken Kesey (author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest).

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.

1962

Their son, Gareth Koch (born 1962), is a classical guitarist.

1968

Koch himself had worked for two months in Jakarta in 1968 as an adviser to UNESCO.

1972

The positive reviews encouraged Koch to eventually take up writing full-time in 1972.

1985

He twice won the Miles Franklin Award (for The Doubleman in 1985, and for Highways to a War in 1996).

1990

He married his second wife, Robin Whyte-Butler, in the late 1990s, and she lived with him in Sydney and Tasmania, and was with him when he died in 2013.

1995

In 1995, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for his contribution to Australian literature, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters from his alma mater, the University of Tasmania, in 1990.

2013

Koch died at his home in Hobart on 23 September 2013, aged 81.

He had been diagnosed with cancer twelve months earlier.