Christopher John Koch AO was an Australian novelist, known for his 1978 novel The Year of Living Dangerously, which was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film by the same name for which he co-wrote the screenplay.
10 Facts About Christopher Koch
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Christopher Koch twice won the Miles Franklin Award.
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Christopher Koch was educated at Clemes College, St Virgil's College, and Hobart High School and later attended the University of Tasmania.
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Christopher Koch left Hobart to travel in south Asia and Europe, and ended up in London where he worked for several years.
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Christopher Koch returned to Australia to avoid national service in the British Army.
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Christopher Koch's first published works were several poems published in The Bulletin and the literary journal Southerly.
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Christopher Koch himself had worked for two months in Jakarta in 1968 as an adviser to UNESCO.
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Christopher Koch died at his home in Hobart on 23 September 2013, aged 81.
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Christopher Koch had been diagnosed with cancer twelve months earlier.
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Christopher Koch 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.