Brian Castro is an Australian novelist who has been dedicated to writing works of fiction and non-fiction since the early 1980s.
Brian Castro / Author biography
Brian Castro was born at sea, between Macao and Hong Kong. He currently lives in Melbourne. After years of combining writing with school teaching, university teaching and journalism, he is now a professorial research fellow at the University of Melbourne, which allows him more time to dedicate to his writing.
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Brian Castro's first novel, Birds of Passage, was the joint winner of Australia's most prestigious award for an unpublished manuscript, The Australian/Vogel Award. His novel After China again won the Victorian Premier’s award and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 1993. In 2003, Shanghai Dancing won both the Victorian Premier's Vance Palmer Award for Fiction and the NSW Premier’s Christina Stead Award for Fiction. His latest novel is The Garden Book, which won the Queensland Premier’s Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award.
