Author

BRIAN CASTRO is the author of the novels Birds Of Passage, Pomeroy, Double-Wolf, After China and Drift. He was born in a typhoon off Hong Kong in 1950 and was sent to boarding school in Australia in 1961.

He published his first novel in 1983 and has won a number of prizes, including the Australian Vogel award, three Victorian Premier's Awards and the Age Fiction Prize.

Castro has worked in Australia, France and Hong Kong as a teacher and writer, and for many years was a literary reviewer for Asiaweek magazine.

His sixth novel, Stepper, is published by Random House (it won the NBC Collins Booksellers Banjo Award for Fiction in 1997).

He currently lives in Melbourne where he recently completed a fictional autobiography, "Shanghai-Dancing," based on his family's life in China during the 1930s (published by Giramondo).

Castro has always been quick to deflect labels as a writer, and states in "Auto/biography":
"Hybridity is a powerfully transgressive property and it has an ability to destabilise genres. Challenging critical boundaries, it seems to me, is the very crux of writing as a vocation" (32).

Brian can be contacted via his publisher:

Ivor Indyk,
Giramondo
[email protected]