William Kostakis

Who is William Kostakis?

Will Kostakis is a Sydney-based Australian author and was the Sydney Morning Herald Young Writer of the Year in 2005.

His first novel for young adults, Loathing Lola, was released in August 2008 through Pan Macmillan. In 2005, Kostakis won the Sydney Morning Herald Young Writer of the Year for a story called Bing Me. From Kostakis's website:

One of his three winning short stories from 2005, Bing Me, was published in the Sydney Morning Herald 'Spectrum' section. In it, this guy has an Internet relationship. Kostakis insists it isn’t about him, but that doesn’t stop us from silently judging him.

Kostakis scored his first publishing contract at 17, while still completing his final year of high school, Newington College. He began work on a variant of Loathing Lola when he was 11 years old, and has since been refining it.