Brian Castro
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Brian Castro (b. 1950 in Hong Kong) is an Australian novelist and essayist. His first novel, Birds of Passage, won the 1982 Australian/Vogel Literary Award. His third novel 'Double-Wolf' won the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, the Innovative Writing Award and the Age Fiction prize. In the following year he again won the Victorian Premier's Literary Prize for 'After China'. 'Stepper' won the National Book Council Prize for Fiction in 1997. His 2003 novel Shanghai Dancing won the 2004 Victorian Premier's Award for Fiction, the 2004 Christina Stead Fiction Prize, and the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards "Book of the Year", also in 2004. The Garden Book was shortlisted for the 2006 Miles Franklin Award and won the 2006 Queensland Premier's Award for Fiction. He is currently a professorial research fellow in the Creative Writing department at the University of Melbourne.
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Novels
- Birds of Passage (1983)
- Pomeroy (1990)
- Double-Wolf (1991)
- After China (1992)
- Drift (1994)
- Stepper (1997)
- Shanghai Dancing (2003)
- The Garden Book (2005)
Non-Fiction
