Brian Castro

Brian Castro was educated at the University of Sydney and has worked in Australian, French and Hong Kong universities as a teacher and writer. He is the author of nine novels and a volume of essays on writing and culture. His novels have won a number of state and national prizes including the Australian/Vogel literary award, The Age Fiction Prize, the National Book Council Prize for Fiction, four Victorian Premier’s awards, two NSW Premier’s awards and the Queensland Premier’s Award for Fiction. He has delivered keynote addresses at major conferences in Shanghai, Vienna, Paris, Toulouse, Hong Kong and Kyoto. He has been a Literature Board member on the Australia Council. For many years he was the literary reviewer for Asiaweek magazine. In 2006 he held the position of Macgeorge Fellow at the University of Melbourne. In 2007-8 he was the Professorial Research Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne.

He is Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide which currently houses the Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership.

His novels are The Bath Fugues, (Giramondo, 2009), The Garden Book, (Sydney: Giramondo, 2005), Shanghai Dancing, (Sydney: Giramondo, 2003). (NY: Kaya Press, 2007), (Lyon: Tigre de Papier, 2010) (Shanghai: Shanghai Translation Publishing House, 2010),  Stepper, (Sydney:Random House, 1997). Stepper oder Die Kunst der Spionage (Stuttgart: Klett Cotta Verlag, 1999)., Drift, (Melbourne: Heinemann, 1994),  After China, (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1992). L’Architecte Chinois (Avignon: Editions de l’Aube, 2003), Ling yipian haitan (Tianjin: Baihua Publishing House, 1995)., Double-Wolf, (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1991).,  Pomeroy, (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1990). Pomeroy, (Stuttgart: Klett Cotta Verlag, 1998), and Birds of Passage, (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1983). Les Oiseaux de Passage.Piaobo de niao. (Beijing: Kat Lam Yun Mun, 1991).

His other publications include Writing Asia and Auto/biography: Two Lectures (ACT: University College, ADFA, January, 1996, and Looking for Estrellita – Essays on Writing and Culture, (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1999).