Adjunct Professor Brian Castro

Adjunct Professor Brian Castro
  • Biography/ Background

    Brian Castro

    Contact
    brian.castro@adelaide.edu.au
    Website: http://www.briancastro.com.au 

    Biography
    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. 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 2005 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 was appointed Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide in 2008 and is a member of the management committee of the J.M. Coetzee centre for Creative Practice, a centre for cross-disciplinary linkages and research into creativity. He is also a member of the Adelaide Writers' Week Committee. Castro was the 2014 recipient of the Patrick White Award for Literature.

    His research interests include melancholia and creativity, Oulipo and diasporic literatures.

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Entry last updated: Monday, 21 Dec 2015