Brian Castro

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Brian Castro
BornBrian Albert Castro
(1950-01-16)16 January 1950
Hong Kong
Occupationnovelist and essayist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
Notable worksShanghai Dancing
Years active1973-

Brian Albert Castro (born 16 January 1950) is an Australian novelist and essayist.[1]

Biography[]

Castro was born in Hong Kong and has lived in Australia since 1961. He was Chair of Creative Writing (2008-2019) at the University of Adelaide and Director of the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice.[2] His publisher is Giramondo Publishing.[3]

Born in Hong Kong of Portuguese, Chinese and English parentage, Brian Castro was educated at St Joseph's College Hunter's Hill and the University of Sydney, after which he worked in Australia, France and Hong Kong as a teacher and writer.[4] His first novel Birds Of Passage (1983) won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award. Double-Wolf (1991) won , the Vance Palmer Prize and the Innovative Writing Prize at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. After China (1992) again won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award. His sixth novel, Stepper (1997), was awarded the . Shanghai Dancing was published by Giramondo in March 2003, winning the Victorian Premier's Award, the NSW Premier's Award and was named NSW Book of the Year. The Garden Book won the 2006 Queensland Premier's Award and The Bath Fugues was short-listed for the Miles Franklin Award, the South Australian Premier's Literary Award, the Queensland Premier's Fiction Prize and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award. In 2012 he published Street To Street, inspired by the life of the poet Christopher Brennan (Giramondo). His latest novel was Blindness and Rage which won the Prime Minister's Award for Poetry in 2018 (Giramondo, 2017.) He currently lives in the Adelaide Hills.[5]

In 2014 he won the Patrick White Award for Literature for his contribution to Australian Literature.[6]

Awards and nominations[]

Bibliography[]

Novels/Verse Novel[]

Non-fiction[]

  • (1995)
  • (1999)

Poetry[]

  • [2] Macau Days (with John Young) (2017)

References[]

  1. ^ Austlit - Brian Castro
  2. ^ "Professor Brian Castro". The University of Adelaide. Retrieved 19 September 2019. "J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice". The University of Adelaide. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 14 August 2007. Retrieved 2008-07-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ Lythrum Press - Brian Castro
  5. ^ [1]
  6. ^ "Patrick White Literary Award winner Brian Castro recalls his encounter with the grumpy neighbour". The Age. 7 November 2014.

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