Brian Castro
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Brian Castro (born 16 January 1950) is an Australian novelist and essayist.
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[edit] Biography
Castro was born at sea, between Macao and Hong Kong, but has lived in Australia since 1961. He is currently a professorial research fellow in the Creative Writing department at the University of Melbourne [1] and resides in Melbourne with his defacto wife and her two children. [2]. He will be taking up the Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide in July 2008 and will relocate to Adelaide. [3]
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[edit] Awards and nominations
- 1982: Australian/Vogel Literary Award for his first novel, Birds of Passage
- 1991: Victorian Premier's Literary Award Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, and The Age Book of the Year Innovative Writing (or Fiction) Award for his third novel Double-Wolf
- 1992: Victorian Premier's Literary Award for After China
- 1997: National Book Council Prize for Fiction for Stepper
- 2004: Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, and the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Fiction Prize and Book of the Year for Shanghai Dancing
- 2006: Miles Franklin Award (Shortlisted), and the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards for Fiction for The Garden Book
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Novels
- Birds of Passage (1983)
- Pomeroy (1990)
- Double-Wolf (1991)
- After China (1992)
- Drift (1994)
- Stepper (1997)
- Shanghai Dancing (2003)
- The Garden Book (2005)
- The Bath Fugues (2008 - due October)
