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 ten 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. Castro was the 2014 recipient of the Patrick White Award for Literature.
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'A novel of daring, of enormous originality of ideas, of our history seen through a kaleidoscopic imagination dizzying in its range …' - Matthew Condon, Australian
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'Brian Castro is an amazingly gifted writer …' - Helen Elliott, Canberra Times
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'I really do think that Castro should be a contender for a Nobel Prize. He is a remarkable author.' - Lisa Hill, ANZ LitLovers