Brian Castro is one of Australia’s most imaginative novelists. He has published ten novels, as well as a body of essays on literary topics. His novels are dense and intellectually stimulating, but at the same time provocatively playful. Acknowledged for his prose style and brilliant use of language, his work has received wide critical acclaim and won many of Australia’s major literary prizes. His work has been translated into Chinese, French and German.

Born in Hong Kong in 1950, Brian Castro came to Australia in 1961 to undertake his secondary schooling, and has made his home here ever since. He began publishing short stories in 1970, and is now a full-time writer.

Brian Castro was joint winner of the Australian / Vogel Award in 1983 for his first novel, Birds of Passage.

In 1999 a collection of his essays was published as Looking for Estrellita.

Shanghai Dancing, published by Giramondo Press in 2003, won the Victorian Premier’s Award for Fiction in 2004 and the 2004 Christina Stead Fiction Prize, NSW Premier’s Awards, and was named NSW Premier’s Awards Book of the Year, 2004.

The Garden Book, published by Giramondo in 2005, was shortlisted for the 2006 Miles Franklin Literary Award and won the Queensland Premier’s Prize for Fiction. Brian’s most recent novel is Street to Street published by Giramondo in 2012.

Bernadette Brennan’s critical study Brian Castro’s Fiction: The Seductive Play of Language is published by Cambria Press.

On 7 November 2014, Brian Castro was awarded the 2014 Patrick White Literary Award. White created the award with the money he received as winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973 to acknowledge writers who have made a significant contribution to Australian literature. White stipulated his prize should be presented on the Friday after the Melbourne Cup to turn attention from sport to literature. Accordingly, Brian Castro received the award in Sydney for his ‘outstanding contribution to Australian literature, his continued willingness to take imaginative risks and be “blackly playful”, and his evident potential to produce more significant work’. Other winners have included Christina Stead (1974), Gwen Harwood (1978), Randolph Stow (1979), Thea Astley (1989), Thomas Shapcott (2000) and Louis Nowra (2013).

Blindness & Rage: A Phantasmagoria

Winner of the Prime Minister’s Literary Award [Poetry], 2018
Winner Mascara Literature Avant-garde Awards 2018 [Fiction category]

Blindness & Rage is a novel told in 34 cantos, somewhat in the manner of Pushkin’s great Russian novel in verse, Eugene Onegin. Castro’s hero Lucien Gracq is a town-planner from Adelaide who is writing a book-length poem, Paidia. Doubtful of its reception, he travels to Paris to join a literary club which guarantees its members anonymity, by having their books published under someone else’s name, while the authors themselves are encouraged to commit suicide if they are not already, as in Gracq’s case, facing death from a terminal illness. Castro’s novel is a part-serious, part-comic fantasy on the present fate of literary authors, who might as well be anonymous, or dead, for all the recognition that they are likely to receive for their writing.

Published 2017 Giramondo Publishing

Street to Street

Brian Castro takes up the novella, the form favoured by David Malouf and Helen Garner, in his new work of fiction, based on the life of the early twentieth-century Sydney poet Christopher Brennan. Brennan wrote some of the most powerful and ambitious poems in Australian poetry; he was a formidable literary figure who corresponded with Mallarmé and wrote on French poetry. He died an impoverished alcoholic. Castro’s portrait of Brennan, seen through the eyes of his would-be biographer Brendan Costa, explores the fear of failure which haunts those who live by the imagination – the fear of not achieving their own high ideals, and of disappointing their families and those who depend them. The story is told with the wit and energy that is the hallmark of Castro’s writing.

Published 2012 Giramondo Publishing

Long-listed Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2013

The Bath Fugues

Vintage Castro, a wonderfully wrought performance, intrigue, romance, comedy, deception – and a melancholy sadness which courts, but never surrenders to, despair. It takes the form of three interwoven novellas, the first centred on an ageing forger, the second on a Portuguese poet, opium addict and art collector, the third on a mysteriously well connected doctor, who has built an art gallery in tropical Queensland.

Published 2009 Giramondo Publishing

Awards
Short-listed, Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2010.
Short-listed, South Australian Premier’s Literary Award, 2010.
Short-listed, Queensland Premier’s Fiction Award
Short-listed, Victorian premier’s Literary Award, Vance Palmer Prize

The Garden Book

‘The Garden Book is so abundant and polyphonous that it inaugurates a new kind of reading.’ Ingrid Wassenaar, The Australian

Set in the Dandenongs of the 1930s, when Australia was facing a looming war, The Garden Book scrutinizes the obsessions, prejudices and sexual betrayals of the period, shedding a different light on conventional notions of Chinese migrants in Australia. This is a story of unreliable narrators, passionate love and the mis-appropriation of literary legacies.

‘The richness of the novel lies not only in the tormented, satisfyingly circular love story but in the skilful patterning and echoing of events and the questing, thrusting, interlacing ideas, often manifesting as bold concatenations or dazzling puns that connect love, lies, writing, reading and, in this novel, leaves.’ Katharine England, The Advertiser.

‘The Garden Book is another triumph of intelligence and imagination by one of the most exacting, yet rewarding of Australian novelists, and when the mood is on him, one of the most amusing as well.’ Peter Pierce, The Age.

‘Castro’s work is all the more notable for its intelligence, humour and daring. There are many fine writers in Australia, but few who are prepared to wrestle so intensely with the limits of the expressible.’ James Ley, Sydney Morning Herald

Published 2005 Giramondo Publishing

Awards
Winner, Queensland Premier’s Fiction Award, 2006.
Short-listed, Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2006.

Shanghai Dancing

Brian Castro introduces his novel as follows:

‘Shanghai Dancing is a fictional biography. Told from an Australian perspective, it is loosely based on my family’s life in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Macau for the 1930s to the 1960s. Drawing on memory, stories, photos, and family myths and secrets, the book is about the twists and turns of fiction and personal history. I feel this tale has been lurking in the background for some time. finding its way out of the labyrinth through dissimulation and story-making.’

‘[The narrator’s] commitment to writing, like that of the real-life Brian Castro, cannot free him from his compulsion to tell tales. This is our gain: Shanghai Dancing is sheer delight.’ Michael Sharkey, The Weekend Australian.

‘Shanghai Dancing is a work of challenging, intelligent fiction.’ James Ley, Sydney Morning Herald.

‘The story is an extraordinary polyglot mix of sources: Portuguese, Chinese, English, Jewish and Catholic, and a mysterious recessive black gene. It leapfrogs from 17th century Brazil to Shanghai in the 1930s, to Hong Kong, Macau, Paris and Australia in the recent past, all told in Castro’s characteristically baroque prose, dense with its passion for language and serious wordplay.’ Jane Sullivan, The Age.

‘[Shanghai Dancing is] in many ways the summa of all [Castro's] work.’ Laurie Clancie, The Age.

Published (Sydney: Giramondo, 2003). (NY: Kaya Press, 2009), Danser Shanghaï, Trans. French, Isabelle Lee, (Lyon: Tigre de Papier, 2010), Shanghai Dancing Trans. Chinese, Wang Guanglin, (Shanghai: Shanghai Translation Publishing House, 2010).

Awards
Victorian Premier’s Award – Vance Palmer Fiction Prize for 2003
Christina Stead Fiction Prize, NSW Premier’s Awards 2004
Book of the Year – NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2004

Stepper

Nominally a spy thriller, Stepper is based on the real exploits of pre-war Russian spies operating in Japan. It is an existential study of a spy who, in a world where identity is not a fixed idea, fails to secure his own stable identity.

‘A political story, a love story, a tale of espionage and duplicity … Witty, comic and at the same time immeasurably sad, it is written in prose as delicate and illuminating as a Hokusai engraving.’ Thea Astley

Published (Sydney:Random House, 1997). Forthcoming: (NY: Kaya Press, 2008). Stepper oder Die Kunst der Spionage. Trans. German, Hans J. Schütz, (Stuttgart: Klett Cotta Verlag, 1999).

Awards
Winner, NBC Banjo Prize for Fiction 1997.

Drift

Through a fictional character, Byron Shelley Johnson, Castro ‘completes’ English experimental novelist Bryan Stanley Johnson’s unfinished trilogy. The novel explores the interaction of historical characters from the sealing days of Tasmania with contemporary characters. Does the past influence the present? Both past and present seem to influence each other in an Escherian paradox.

Published (Melbourne: Heinemann, 1994, Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2011).

After China

An architect exiled from China meets an Australian woman writer who is terminally ill. He tells her traditional Chinese stories as a way of overcoming time/mortality, and of coming to terms with his own difficult past.

For a book which takes loneliness and death for its themes, After China has unexpected reserves of warmth, affection and humour. Insisting on the erotic, it is surprisingly delicate, restrained and chaste. And for a work of such diverse and eclectic reference it is rewardingly resonant and interconnected. The whole novel is thus a brilliant feat of balance.

‘After China is perhaps Castro’s most immediately accessible and engaging work so far.Katharine England’, The Advertiser, 1992

Published (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1992). L’Architecte Chinois Trans. French, Isabelle Lee, (Avignon: Editions de l’Aube, 2003), Ling yipian haitan. Trans. Chinese, Liang Fen, (Tianjin: Baihua Publishing House, 1995). Stage adaptation by Peter Copeman, Belvoir Street Theatre, August 1998. New Australian edition with an introduction by Katharine England, (Adelaide: Lythrum Press, July 2003).

Awards
Vance Palmer Prize for fiction. 1993 Victorian Premier’s Awards

Double-Wolf

Hot on the heels of Pomeroy, Castro’s third novel Double-Wolf was also published in 1991. It takes as its premise the fact that Sergei Wespe, Freud’s famous ‘Wolfman’ patient, was an aspiring writer, and adept at spinning tales. Was what he told Freud ‘the truth’ about his neurotic condition, or did he spin out an elaborate narrative to please Freud? If the latter, where does Freud’s own ‘narrative’ or ‘discourse’, psychotherapy, stand?

Based on research about the real Wolfman, Castro combines reality and imagination in a vivid tale that has the reading guessing: what is ‘the truth’? At times salacious and at times outrageously funny, it questions the idea of the ‘myths’ that we consctruct to make sense of our world.

‘Rich, rare, profound, witty and inventive … a grand arabesque through time an space … this is a remarkable novel, with an intellectual generosity I find exceptional.’Helen Daniel, The Age.

Published (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1991). New Australian edition with an introduction by Katharine England, (Adelaide: Lythrum Press, 2005).

Awards
The Age Fiction Award 1991
Victorian Premier’s Award for Fiction (Vance Palmer Prize) 1992
Victorian Premier’s Award for Innovative Writing, 1992

Pomeroy

Castro’s second novel did not appear until 1991, an interval of some 8 years. It introduced a new style. The basically realist style of Birds of Passage gave way to a more playful, parodic style. Pomeroy is a postmodern novel that parodies the detective/spy thriller style, and the writing keeps looping back upon itself. It is ostensibly the story of an Australian journalist, Jaime Pomeroy, who becomes involved in a trail of Hong Kong corruption. His adventures in Hong Kong are interspliced with his life in Australia, and doomed pursuit of the love of his life, the emblematic Estrellita.

The novel is witty and fast-paced, and plays games with literary and cultural theory.

Published (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1990). Pomeroy, Trans. German, Hans J. Schütz, (Stuttgart: Klett Cotta Verlag, 1998).

Birds of Passage

Joint winner of The Australian/Vogel Literary Award

Brian Castro’s novel was the joint winner (with Nigel Krauth) of The Australian/Vogel award for an unpublished manuscript. Birds of Passage (originally titled Solitude), was published in 1983 by Allen and Unwin. It interweaves two narratives, that of a Chinese, Lo Yun Shan, who comes to Australia from Kwangtung in the 1850s gold rushes, and a contemporary Australian, Seamus O’Young, who is of Chinese descent. Seamus discovers an old journal written by Shan, and as he translates this journal his own life becomes increasing entwined with that of Shan.

The novel investigates questions of identity, specifically in terms of ‘translation’ between cultures.

The novel has been widely praised, and is probably the best-known of Castro’s works. It introduced the reading public to Castro’s linguistically brilliant writing, and imaginative plotting.

‘A lyric celebration of the physical and spiritual endurance of two Chinese men who quest for wholeness of soul … The settings are brilliantly evoked.’ Sydney Morning Herald.

Published (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1983). Les Oiseaux de Passage. Trans. French. Xavier Pons, (Toulouse: Editions Ombres 1988). Piaobo de niao. Trans. Chinese. Li Yao, (Beijing: Kat Lam Yun Mun, 1991).

Awards
Joint winner, The Australian/Vogel Literary Award, 1982.

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Looking For Estrellita – Essays on Writing and Culture.
(University of Queensland Press, 1999)
(Hbk: ISBN : 0 7022 3114 2 Pbk: 0 7022 3115 0)

Book Chapters

2016 ‘Love, Actually’, Best Australian Stories 2016 ed. Charlotte Wood, Black Inc.

2016 ‘Blindness & Rage: A Phantasmagoria’, Giramondo Publishing, Sydney, 1-142

2016, Diary of a Rational Man: A Paranormal Entry, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne

2015  ‘The Company We Keep’, Three Suns I Saw, Ulrike Fischer and Shane Rowlands eds., Brisbane: Boolarong Press, Aachen: Karin Fischer Verlag

2007 ‘Twice born: risks and trespass in White’s Patrick‘, Giramondo Publishers, Australia, pp. 60-70

2004  Authors Take Sides, edited by Jean Moorcroft Wilson & Cecil Woolf, Melbourne University Press, July 2004 (ISBN 0522-85136-3).

2001 ‘The Persistence of Memory’, in Victor Barker, ed., Paris Studio, Halstead Press, 2001. (ISBN: 1 875684 78 6)

Exhibition

2012 Passages (with Khai Liew and John Young), TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria. ISBN 978-0-9805408-4-0, February 2012

Monographs

1996 Writing Asia and Auto/biography: Two Lectures University College, Australian Defence Force Academy, January, 1996. (ISBN: 0 7317 0336 7) Extracted, Australian Humanities Review Ed. Cassandra Pybus, Hypertext. Auto/biography in Morag Fraser, ed. Seams of Light: Best Antipodean Essays (Allen & Unwin, 1998)

Published Essays and Articles

2018 ‘Blindness and Deafness in Literary Reception’, The Sydney Review of Books, July 2018, http://sydneyreviewofbooks/blindness-and-deafness-in-literary-reception/
2014 ‘Lightning, Agony, Vertigo’, Barry Andrews Keynote, ASAL, October 2014, JASAL.  http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal”>http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal Vol 14, No. 3 ‘Country’ Issue.
2014  Introduction to Breaking Beauty, an anthology of short stories, Lynette Washington ed., (Adelaide: MidnightSun Publishing).
2014  Review: Magnificent Obsessions: Honouring the Lives of Hazel Rowley, Edited by Rosemary Lloyd and Jean Fornasiero, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, Australian Journal of French Studies, Liverpool University Press.
2013  ‘Sensible Seeing’, The Sydney Review of Books, http://sydneyreviewofbooks/
2013 ‘Literature and Fashion’, The Sydney Review of Books, 23 April 2013 http://sydneyreviewofbooks/literature-and-fashion/
2013 ‘On Translation’, The Warwick Review, University of Warwick, Coventry UK.
2011 ‘Melancholy Objects: Flaubert’s Double Agency,’ Australian Journal of French Studies, Vol 48, Issue 3.
2011 ‘Slow Boat To Culture’, The Australian Literary Review, October, 2011 p 20.
2011 Creative Writing in Asia, TEXT, special issue no. 10, April 2011. Papers from Symposium at City University, Hong Kong, 10/3/2011,  http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue10/content.htm
2010 Foreword to The Nth Degree, An Anthology of New Writing, Melbourne: Arcade Custom.
2010 ‘Roller Coaster”, Victorian Writers Centre Newsletter July, 2010.
2009 ‘The Idea Of Asia’, Art & Australia, Vol 47 No. 2 Summer issue.
2009 ‘Writing Asia’ Panel paper, Sydney Writers Festival, 23rd May.
2009 ‘Arrested Motion and Future Mourning: Hybridity and Creativity’, Blaiklock Lecture, University of Sydney, Southerly, Vol. 68, No. 3, 2009.
2009 ‘Arrested Motion and Future Mourning: Hybridity and Creativity’, Keynote address, Liverpool-Hope University, Liverpool, July 19, conference paper, Cultures in Transit, Transtext(e)s/Transcultures, October 2009, (http://transtexts.revues.org/index253.html).
2009 ‘Lost In His Own Labyrinth’ – Review of Gabriel García Marquéz – A Life, by Gerald Martin, , The Australian Literary Review, February, 2009.
2008 ‘In Camera’, HEAT 19.
2008 ‘Revolution in Mind’, Review, The Australian Literary Review.
2007 ‘Eight Chinese Lessons’, Griffith Review.
2007 ‘Twice Born: Risk and Trespass in White’s Patrick’, HEAT.
2007 ‘My Write of Way’, The Age, A2, 30 June.
2007 ‘Written Kisses’, Meanjin, Vol 66 No. 1, April, 2007. Reprinted, ‘Language Gives You Wings’, The Age, A2, 7 April.
2007 ‘Memory/Memorial’, Anglophonia. The French Journal Of English Studies, (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail). Volume 21.
2005 ‘Parleying Apocalypse’, Meanjin, Vol. 64, No. 4.
2004 ‘Caesura’, Griffith Review, Vol. 6, Summer, 2004-5
2004 ‘Through a Glass Darkly – W.G. Sebald’s Overcast Style’, Heat, No. 7 (2004).
2003 ‘Forgetting Paris’, The Australian Author, July, 2003.
2002 ‘Blue Max’, a tribute to W.G. Sebald, Heat, No. 3, New Series.
2001 ‘The Persistence of Memory’, in Victor Barker, ed., Paris Studio, Halstead Press, 2001. (ISBN: 1 875684 78 6)
2001 ‘Volées’, Catalogue essay for John Young’s Exhibition Pine’s Edge. Anna Schwartz Galleries.
2001 ‘Auto/biographie’, Vacarme, No. 15, Printemps, Paris. Trans. Isabelle Lee.
2000 ‘Cultural Cringe’ Meanjin, Vol. 59 No. 3.
1999 ‘Identity Papers’, The Australian’s Review of Books, 9 June, 1999.
1999 ‘Autobiography and Disinheritance’, Australian Humanities Review, February,1999.
1997 ‘The Role of the Critic’, Australian Book Review, November, 1997.
1997 ‘Stepper’, The Shincho Magazine, Tokyo, Japan, Vol. 11, 1997
1997 ‘Writing Stepper’, Aurora Australis http://www.australis.org, April.
1996 ‘Masked Balls’ Heat. Vol.1, July.
1996 ‘Nature Morte’ Art Monthly/Australian Book Review, August
1995 ‘Heterotopias: Writing and Location. The Australian Context’ Australian Literary Studies. Winter.
1995 Introduction to Beyond Black and White; photography and texts ed. Andy Park (Panda Press).
1995 ‘Just Flirting’, The Australian Book Review, June.
1995 ‘Lesions’ Meanjin, Vol. 54, No.1.
1995 ‘Heterotopias’ Australian Studies Conference Papers, Guangzhou, China.
1994 ‘Continental Drift’, The Sydney Institute Papers, August.
1994 ‘On the last ten years’, The Good Weekend, September.
1993 ‘On Grief’ Saturday Extra, The Age.
1991 ‘The Public and the Private – a meditation on noise’, Island magazine, Winter.
1991 ‘Necessary Idiocy’ in Striking Chords, Allen & Unwin November, 1991. First published in The Age Monthly Review, February 1989.
1991 ‘On Landscape and Inspiration’, The Good Weekend, November.
1990 ‘On Gail Morgan’, Editions, July.
1985 ‘Finding A Voice’ Asiaweek, May 3.
1985 ‘Winning The Race’ Harper’s Bazaar, March.
1984 ‘Memoirs of a Displaced Person’ National Times January 6 – 12. 1984 Writing In Multicultural Australia, Australia Council, from the Multicultural Writers’ Conference Sydney 1984, A. Ward ed.

Occasional Addresses, Readings and Lectures

2017 ‘Space, Time, Literature and China’, Antipodean China workshop, 23 November
2017 Macau Days: Brian Castro & John Young in conversation with Natalie King, MTalks, University of Melbourne, 14 Nov.
2017 Writing China - Panel discussion, Ozasia Festival, 8 October
2017 Blindness and Rage, Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin, Sep 13
2017 Brian Castro: Blindness & Rage, Melbourne Writers Festival, 2 September
2017 Macau Days – Panel discussion, Ozasia Festival, 8 October
2015 Brian Castro: Samaritan, Berlin Literary Festival, Berlin, August 21
2013 Presentation, China-Australia Literary Forum, Beijing, April 1-4.
2013 ASAL Keynote address, Charles Sturt University Wagga Wagga, July 2.
2012 2 Masterclasses University of Wollongong.
2012 Launch of Street To Street, Kinokinya Bookshop, Sydney, 11 October.
2012 Reading: “The Company We Keep”, Dark Horsey Bookshop, Tuesday, 4 September.
2012 Talk and reading, Visions and Voices: The USC Arts & Humanities Initiative, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, Monday, April 2, 2012 : 12pm, 7:00pm
2011 Public Lecture, ‘Melancholy Muse’, Research Tuesdays series, Adelaide University, Monday, April 2, 2012 : 7:00pm
2011 China Tour
Fri 4-Mar am tbc Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade with Tom Keneally and translator Wang Guanglin
Sun 6-Mar pm In Conversation with Wang Guanglin, Shanghai Literary Festival
Mon 7-Mar pm Beijing, Bookworm Bookshop – Lifting the Painted Veil: in conversation with Xu Xi
Tues 8-Mar, am. inteview, Bruce Connolly,Beijing Radio
Tues 8-Mar, pm. Peking Univ – ‘Australian and international voices in writing and translation’, with Mabel Lee and Kate Jennings
Thu 10-Mar 7.30-9.30pm Alumni event: ‘The Book, The Film and The Scholar’; The Capital Club, with Jessica Rudd and Christo Tsiolkas
Fri 11 Mar, Chengdu, Bookworm: Money or the Muse: creating the space for creativity; with Kate Jennings
Mon 14-Mar, Hong Kong Literary Festival – Aust Consul General’s residence event, readings with Craig Silvey
Tues 15-Mar, Hong Kong Literary Festival – ‘Shanghai Dancing: Truth or Fiction?’, Central Library
2010 Speech and reading,Adelaide Writers’ Festival, Meet the Author, 1/3/2010.
2010 Symposium Paper, Creative Writing in Asia, City University, Hong Kong, 10/3/2010.
2010 Public Lecture, It’s Not About You,  University of Essex, Colchester, UK, 12/3/2010.
2010 Keynote, Jean Moulin University, Lyon, France, 18/3/2010.
2010 Launch, Danser Shanghai, trans. Isabelle Lee, Confucius Institute, Jean Moulin University, Lyon, France, 19/3/2010.
2009 Lecture, Flinders University, Adelaide, Writer and their World series, 15/10/2009.
2009 Launch, The Bath Fugues, 13/6/09 Melbourne.
2009 Launch, The Bath Fugues, 5/6/09 Adelaide.
2009 The USA Readings
April 29, New York University A/P/A Institute
April 30, Asian American Writers Workshop, New York
May 2, Yerba Buena centre for the Arts, San Francisco
May 4, Booksoup Bookstore, Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles
May 7, South Pasadena Public Library
May 8, SomArts Cultural Centre, Bay Gallery, San Francisco
May 9, Writers With Drinks, San Francisco
2009 Launch, Marion Campbell’s Fragments of a Paper Witch, Collected Works Bookstore, February 14.
2008 ‘Arrested Motion and Future Mourning: My Life as a Troubled Maker’, Barr-Smith Lecture, The University of Adelaide, 30th October.
2008 ‘Arrested Motion and Future Mourning: Hybridity and Creativity’, Keynote address, Liverpool-Hope University, Liverpool, July 19.
2008 ‘In Camera: Boccaccio and Melancholy’, Seminar Paper, the University of Sydney, May 29.
2008 ‘Arrested Motion and Future Mourning’, Blakelock Lecture, the University of Sydney, May 29.
2008 ‘My Write of Way’, Reading, First Person, ABC Radio National, February 20, 2008.
2008 Impressions and Impersonations: Asia and Australia in the Age of Incitement, Keynote address, EASA conference, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, September 26-30, 2007. Public lecture, University of Melbourne, October, 2007.
2007 Launch, Peta Stephenson’s The Outsiders Within, Brunswick St Bookstore, July 27.
2007 ‘Twice Born’, paper delivered on Patrick White, Sydney Conference, May 27, 2007.
2007 In conversation with Eddin Khoo, Kuala Lumpur literary festival, 30th March, 2007.
2007 Reading of Shanghai Dancing, Kuala Lumpur literary festival, 30th March, 2007.
2006 Ghosts in the Machine, ‘Love & Desire’ Conference, National Library of Australia, 23-24 September.
2006 ‘Divergences and Convergences’, Conference, Université de Toulouse-Le-Mirail, France, March 16-18. Keynote address: ‘Memory/Memorial’. March 18.
2006 Reading, Librairies Ombres Blanches, Toulouse, France. March 16.
2006 Shanghai Library Keynote address: ‘Memory and Invention: Shanghai Dreams, Australian Perspectives’. March 11.
2006 Reading, M On The Bund. March 11.
2006 MAN Hong Kong Literary Festival, March 6-15. Conversations with Tim Cribb;  March 8. Interview with Jane Camens. March 9.
2006 ‘Trafficking in Dangerous Goods’, Transtext(e)s/Transcultures, (http://www.transtexts-transcultures.net/).
2005 Opening Address, John Young Retrospective, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria, November 6, 2005.
2005 ‘Writing and Time’ talk, HEAT public event,  Sydney Grammar School, September 18, 2005.
2005 ‘Parleying Apocalypse’, Macgeorge Public Lecture, University of Melbourne, May 24, 2005.
2004 ‘Why I haven’t written a memoir’, Sydney Writers’ Festival, May 20, 2004.
2003 Heat Lecture Series ‘Through a Glass Darkly – W. G. Sebald’s Overcast Style’, Melbourne Writers Festival, August 30, 2003.
2003 Spotlight Interview with Morag Fraser, Melbourne Writers Festival, August 24, 2003
2003 Opening Address, Rare Books Exhibition, Monash University Library June 5, 2003.
2002 Sydney Writers’ Festival, in conversation with Andrew Reimer, May 24, 2003.
2003 Sydney Writers’ Festival, ‘The Memoir’, May 22, 2003.
2002 ‘In 4/4’, reading and jazz, Sydney Opera House.
2002 Vienna, reading, 40th anniversary of the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Literatur.
2002 Adelaide Festival Writers’ Week. ‘Belonging’.
2000 November 15, Reading, Café de la Mairie, Place Saint-Sulpice, Paris.
1999 October 14-17, Talks on ‘The Essay’ and ‘The blurring of fiction and reality’, Brisbane Writers’ Festival.
1999 April 20-22, Readings and talks in Vienna, Austria
1999 April 18-20, Readings and talks at the ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary
1999 April 12-22, Readings and talks at the Prague Festival, The Czech Republic
1997 October 14, Interviewed by Andrea Goldsmith, Deakin University.
1997 May 5, In conversation with Adeliene Yen-Mah, Comedy Club, Carlton.
1997 April 22, Launch of Stepper Brunswick St Bookstore, Fitzroy, Melbourne.
1997 April 13, Launch of Stepper by Louis Nowra, Gleebooks, Sydney.
1997 April 13, Reading, The Word On Sunday, Museum Of Contemporary Arts.
1997 February 20, Lygon Court, Reading for Heat 3 launch.
1997 January 29, Graduate Studies seminar, Dept. of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong.
1996 September 20, Reading, Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne Festival.
1996 September 17, Interview with Cassandra Pybus, Malthouse, Melbourne Festival.
1996 September 15, Reading and discussion, Melbourne University.
1995 October 4, University Of Canberra, reading and talk.
1995 September 14, Reading and discussion, Menzies Library, ANU.
1995 August 31, Public Seminar, ADFA, ‘Writing Autobiography’.
1995 August 22, ANU paper: ‘Auto/biography’.
1995 August 22, Reading at Tilley’s, Canberra.
1995 August 15, University of Canberra: Open Lecture: ‘Fiction Structures’.
1995 August 9, National Library, Canberra: Lecture ‘Writing Asia’.
1995 July 25, Launch of special translation issue of Southerly Magazine.
1995 May 19, Talk, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.
1995 May 17, Talk, Tezukayama Gakuin University, Osaka Japan.
1994 October 12, Reading, Hong Kong University.
1994 September 11, Reading, The Word On Sunday, Museum Of Contemporary Arts.
1994 September 26, University Of Zhongshan, Guangzhou. Australian Studies Conference.
1994 August 17, Reading at Gleebooks Sydney.
1994 August, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Writing Australia series.
1994 August, The Sydney Institute. ‘Continental Drift: Writing, Experience and Geography’.
1994 July, Reading at Readings Melbourne.
1994 April 8, Varuna. Western Sydney Writing Project.
1993 September, Reading at Mietta’s Melbourne.
1992 September, Reading at Mietta’s Melbourne.
1991 October, Presentation of The Australian/Vogel award.
1991 July 31, Lecture, Writer’s Choice, Sydney University.
1991 July 30, Reading at Harold Park Hotel.
1991 July 25, Reading and discussion at The Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra.
1991 July 24, Reading at Tilley’s Canberra.
1991 June 30, Reading for launching of Sydney edition of Island Magazine, Harold Park Hotel.
1991 June 26, Launch speech, Double-Wolf, Ariel Bookshop, Sydney.
1990 Reading, Salamanca Writers’ Festival, Hobart, Tasmania.
1990 March 5, Launch speech, Pomeroy, Adelaide Festival.
1988 November 9, Lecture and reading, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail,Toulouse. Reading, staff and students, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail.
1988 November 8, Lecture and reading, Université de Rouen.
1988 November 3, Lecture, Université de Paris VIII St-Denis.
1988 November 2, Lecture, Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques, Sorbonne.
Lecture and reading of work, Université de Paris X, Nanterre.
Press conference at Librairie Compaignie, rue des Ecoles.
1988 Symposium, ‘Critical and Creative Writing’, Nepean College.
1988 Reading, Sydney Biennale, Art Gallery of N.S.W
1985 Lecture and reading, Mitchell College & Orange Town Hall.
1984 October 13, Lecture, Multicultural Writers’ Conference, Sydney.
1982 Talk, Blue Mountains F.A.W., Katoomba.

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Stage Play

1998 After China Stage adaptation, Peter Copeman, Belvoir Street Theatre, 1998.

1994 Secrets Monologue for the Sydney Festival, performed by John Derum. 27th-30th ANZ Theatre, Darling Harbour, January, 1994. Broadcast on ABC FM and Radio National, March, 1994. Published in George Papaellinas ed. Republica, No.1 (1994)

Radio Play

1995 Nightsafe Area. ABC radio. 13/7/95, re-broadcast ‘Soundstage’ 8/4/97. Published in Heat No. 3 February, 1997.

Screenplay

1993 After China (with Jim Sharman) (Unpublished)

Short Stories and Poetry

2018 ‘Apophlegms’, Mascara Literary Review, Issue 22, June 2018.
2016 ‘Love, Actually’, Melbourne, Review of Australian Fiction 18:5
2015 ’600 Lines of Blindness & Rage’, Melbourne VIC., Cordite Poetry Review
2015 ‘Samaritan’, Berlin, Verlag Vorwerk 8
2015 ‘The Company We Keep’, Queensland, Boolarong Press
2011 ‘The Reprieve’, Wet Ink, Issue 25, Summer 2011
2010 ‘The Archivist’, TEXT, Vol. 14, No. 7. Special issue, November 2010. http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue7/content.htm
2009 ‘My Nervous Illness’, HEAT, Edition 21, 2009.
2009 ‘Notes to a Biographer’, Griffith Review, 23, 2009.
2003 ‘You Can Find Me In The Garden If You Want Me’, edited extract from The Garden Book in Best Australian Stories of 2003, Peter Craven ed. (Black Inc Books).
2002 ‘Das Gesetz der Dinge’, Extract from Shanghai Dancing, in Weltliteratur – Literaturen der Welt, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Literatur, Vienna. Trans. Helmuth A. Niederle.
2001 ‘Danser Shanghai’, Extract from Shanghai Dancing in Vacarme, No 15, Printemps, Paris. Trans. Isabelle Lee.
2000 ‘Peripeteia’ Extract from Shanghai Dancing in Meanjin
2000 ‘Cathay’ Extract from Shanghai Dancing in Island magazine
1999 ‘For Richer, For Poorer’ Extract from Shanghai Dancing in Best Australian Stories of 1999, Peter Craven ed.
1999 ‘The Pillow Book’, Heat Vol.11, March, 1999.
1999 ‘Sonatina’, in The Penguin Century of Australian Short Stories, Carmel Bird ed., Penguin, (ISBN: 0-670-89233-5).
1999 ‘Hopscotch’, in Enough Already, an anthology of Jewish writing, Alan Jacobs ed., Allen & Unwin, (ISBN 1-86448-756-9)
1997 ‘Nightsafe Area’, a monologue, in Heat Vol.3, February, 1997.
1996 ‘Hopscotch’ in A Sporting Declaration Manfred Jurgensen ed., Phoenix Publications.
1996 ‘Shanghai-dancing’ in Risks Brenda Walker ed., Fremantle Arts Centre Press.
1996 ‘Sonatina’ in Red Hot Notes Carmel Bird ed., University Of Queensland Press (February, 1996). First published, Sydney Morning Herald, 26/3/94.
1995 Extract from Stepper in Australian Book Review, October 1995.
1994 Extract from Drift in Scripsi Vol 9 No 2
1994 Extract from After China in Reading From the Left Wendy Jenkins ed., Fremantle Arts Press.
1993 Extract from Drift in Harbour,George Papaellinas ed., Picador.
1993 ‘Poet’s Ridge’ in Murder at Home, Stephen Knight ed., Allen & Unwin.
1993 ‘You Must Remember This’, Picador New Writing No. 1. Robert Dessaix & Helen Daniel eds. Trans. Czech, Alexandra Büchler, Vanoce V Busi, Apsida, Praha 2000.
1993 ‘Death Of A Morphologist’, Microstories, Imprint, Angus & Robertson, Rosemary Sorensen ed. First published in Australian Book Review, no.145, October 1992. Chung-wai Literary Monthly, No. 301, Taiwan, trans. Ouyang Yu, p 209.
1992 ‘Portfolio’ in A Corpse At The Opera House Stephen Knight ed., Allen & Unwin.
1992 ‘Carried Away On A Flower Boat’, Scripsi, Vol 7 No. 3.
1987 ‘Grand-Master’, in Displacements 2: Multicultural Storytellers, Deakin University, First published in Outrider, Vol 2, No. 2, 1985.
1983 ‘The Cave’ Meanjin, 42, No.1.
1982 ‘The Last Card Game’ inprint, 6, No.3.
1982 ‘The Tyranny of Form’ Brave New World, No.2.
1982 ‘Three Hemingway Pieces’ The Nepean Review (Vol. 8) Short Story Competition First Prize.
1982 ‘A Ten-Minute Story Into The Night’ Going Down Swinging, No.4.
1982 ‘Miniatures’ The Nepean Review, (Vol. 9).
1981 ‘Mythos’, in The Hat Trick, Australian Short Stories, B.H.P./F.A.W.
1981 ‘Indolent Notes Towards Heaven’ inprint 5, No. 2.
1980 ‘Writing From The Clinic’ Mattoid 2, No. 9.
1975 ‘The Man Who Breathed’ New Literature Review.
1973 ‘Estrellita’ The Union Recorder (Vol 53, No. 22), Sydney University Short Story Competition First Prize.

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12 September 2017: ExBerliner – ILB author spotlight Brian Castro, http://www.exberliner.com/features/opinion/ilb-author-spotlight-brian-castro

17 March 2017: Q&A – Brian Castro, Australian Writer: ‘Macau is still an enclave in the past’, Macau Daily Times  http://macaudailytimes.com.mo/qa-brian-castro-australian-writer-macau-still-enclave-past.html

15 March 2017: “Vogel Survey: Brian Castro”, n.a, Meanjin Quarterly, March 15, 2017

14 December 2014: Q&A with writer Brian Castro - Interviewed by Deborah Kalb  http://deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/q-with-writer-brian-castro.html

12 September 2013: Interview with Magdelena Ball - The Compulsive Reader  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/compulsivereader/2013/09/12/interview-with-brian-castro

9 December 2012: Radio Interview – Interviewed by Catherine Kenneally, Brian Castro, who is currently Professor of Creative Writing at Adelaide University, talks about, and reads an excerpt from, his novella Street to Street, based on the life of early 20th Century poet Christopher Brennan. 101.5 FM Radio Adelaide

11 July 2009: Shanghai Dancing Trailer – This award-winning “fictional autobiography” is Castro’s eighth book [trailer by Samuel Arbizo]

March 2010, Adelaide: Meet the author Brian Castro. Brian Castro discusses his life of writing, his background, the themes of his work and his new novel, The Bath Fugues. Castro has written nine books and is one of Australia’s most acclaimed and awarded authors.The session is chaired by Amanda Nettlebeck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtNDvKd59Fk

Thursday 9 July 2009: The Book Show, ABC Radio – Brian Castro’s The Bath Fugues [with Ramona Kova]l. Australian novelist Brian Castro discusses his new book The Bath Fugues. The book is structured as three linked novellas, each is in 30 parts or variations.

 May 2, 2009: Q & A with novelist Brian Castro - Australian novelist Brian Castro talks about himself and his award-winning ‘fictional autobiography’ Shanghai Dancing. The interview was recorded in San Francisco at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts during Castro’s debut author tour in support of the US release of Shanghai Dancing. with Kaya Press.

8 November 2008: The Wordshed – Brian Castro, Writing in fragments. Produced by the Johanna Featherstone and the Red Room Company (www.redroomcompany.org), on behalf of the Writing and Society Research Group in the College of Arts, Education and Social Sciences at the University of Western Sydney.

24 November 2008: ‘Grammars of Creation’: An interview with Brian Castro – Marilyne Brun [The Journal of the European Association of Studies on Australia, Vol.2. No.1, 2011, under the auspices of Coolabah Observatori: Centre d’Estudis Australians, Australian Studies Centre, Universitat de Barcelona] – In this interview, contemporary Australian writer Brian Castro addresses a number of themes and concepts that are central to his critical work and fiction. In the interview, Castro discusses his oeuvre as a whole,providing insights into the starting point for his first eight novels. He comments on the concepts of transgression, hybridity,polyphonia, cosmopolitanism and play, underlining the central significance of grammar,ethics and aesthetics in his work. The interview also includes reflections on the development of Asian Australian studies and the importance of translating novels. In the final sections of the interview, Castro discusses the relation between his critical work and his novels and reflects on the common conflation of the novelist and the theorist in much literary criticism.

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Bernadette Brennan’s critical study Brian Castro’s Fiction: The Seductive Play of Language was released in February 2009. The book is published by Cambria Press.

Sneja Gunew : Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-cosmopolitan Mediators, Anthem Press 2017 http://www.amazon.com.au/Post-Multicultural-Neo-cosmopolitan-Mediators-Australian-Literature-ebook/dp/B01NBY41G7/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1542661792&sr=8-2&keywords=sneja+gunew

‘Castro, the Other, and the Complexity of Belonging, Chapter 2, Transcultural Writers and Novels in the Age of Global Mobility, Arianna Dagnino, Purdue University Press, Indiana, 2015

‘Une Esthétique Du Non-Positionnement? Du Questionnement De L’idéologie Dans Les Œuvres De Brian Castro’, Marjorie Ambrosio, Aesthetics and Ideology in Contemporary Literature and Drama, Madelena Gonzalez & René Agostini [eds], Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015

Reviews and critical articles on the works of Brian Castro, by novel This section is designed to be a resource for researchers interested in a specific Brian Castro novel. It lists reviews and critical articles that relate principally to the one novel; it does not include reviews and articles that discuss several works, or deal with Brian Castro’s work in general – these general articles are listed in the omnibus section, ‘References’, below.

Blindness and Rage

‘Patrick Holland reviews Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria‘, Australian Book Review, no. 394, September 2017 http://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2017/4233-patrick-holland-reviews-blindness-and-rage-a-phantasmagoria-a-novel-in-thirty-four-cantos-by-brian-castro
‘Blindness and Rage review: Brian Castro plays his customary literary games”‘, Andrew Riemer, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 May 2017 http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/blindness-and-rage-review-brian-castro-plays-his-customary-literary-games-20170526-gwdspd.html
Mark Byron, ‘Ludus et Paidia: Blindness and Rage by Brian Castro’, Sydney Review of Books, 6 April, 2018 http://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/blindness-and-rage-a-phantasmagoria-review/
‘Joseph Cummins reviews Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria by Brian Castro’, Mascara Literary Review http://mascarareview.com/joseph-cummins-reviews-blindness-and-rage-a-phantasmagoria-by-brian-castro/
Lisa Hill, “Blindness and Rage, a Phantasmagoria, by Brian Castro”, ANZ LitLovers, June 21, 2017 http://anzlitlovers.com/2017/06/21/blindness-and-rage-a-phantasmagoria-by-brian-castro-bookreview/
James Jiang, “Review Short: Brian Castro’s Blindness and Rage“, Cordite Poetry Review, 10 August 2017 http://cordite.org.au/reviews/jiang-castro/

Birds of Passage

Burns, Graham ‘Travelling Birds’, Australian Book Review, No. 60, May 1984, pp. 17-18
Creech, Nick ‘Winging Towards Elusive Heights’, Australian Weekend Magazine, 20-21 August 1983, p. 15
Delamotte, Jean-Paul ‘A la passée’, Magazine Litteraire, October 1988, p. 84 [French review]
Delamotte, Jean-Paul ‘Intolérance aux antipodes’, Le Monde, 23 December 1988 [French review]
Gould, Alan ‘A prize in doubt’, Age, 17 September 1983, Saturday Extra, p. 15
Jose, Nicholas ‘Dead Jumbuck’, Age Monthly Review, January 1984, pp. 19-20
Kellaway, Frank ‘Distinguished Fiction’, Overland, No. 93, December 1983, pp. 65-66
Poirier, François Untitled review, Art Press, 30 October 1988 (France), p. 60 [French review]
Pons, Xavier ‘Impossible Coincidences: Narrative Strategy in Brian Castro’s Birds of Passage’, Australian Literary Studies, Vol. 14, No. 4, October 1990, pp. 464-475
Sen, Veronica ‘Story of Alienation Stirs and Engages’, Canberra Times, 4 June 1989, p. 18
Thomas, Mark ‘Serious and Impressive But Disjointed Novel’, Canberra Times, 8 October 1983, p. 19
Yu, Ouyang ‘Brian Castro: The Other Representing the Other’, Literary Criterion, Vol. 30, Nos. 1 & 2, 1995, pp. 30-48

Brief notices

Anon. ‘Bumper Year for Award’, Weekend Australian (Magazine), 4-5 December 1982, p. 12
Clancy, Laurie Fiction – Re-issues (column) Australian Book Review, No. 68, 1985, p. 35
McLaren, John Untitled review, The Good Reading Guide, compiled by Helen Daniel, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1989, pp. 42-43
Wright, Viki ‘Puzzles for the Smart Set – Paperbacks worth having’, Weekend Australian, 8-9 September 1984, Magazine p. 14

Pomeroy

Anon. ‘A Sensitive Assignment’, Australian Bookseller & Publisher, Vol. 69, No. 1001, February 1990, p. 36
Brissenden, R.F. ‘Dangerous Investigations’, Editions, No. 8-9, September 1990, pp. 7-8
England, Katharine ‘Plotting 6, a Quarterly Account of Recent Fiction’, Overland, No. 120, Spring 1990, p. 45-50
England, Katharine ‘A Post-Modern Thriller and Some Loud Laughter’, Advertiser, 3 March 1990, p. 17
Fuller, Peter ‘Pomeroy Will Not Be Bettered’, Canberra Times, 10 March 1990, p. B4
Fuller, Peter ‘Reality Offers Chance to Reproduce It In Writing’, Canberra Times, 7 March 1990, p. 32
Halligan, Marion ‘Long on Metaphor, Short on Craft and Meaning …’, Weekend Australian, 26-27 May 1990, p. rev 5
Hutchings, Peter ‘Disconnections and Misdirections’, Adelaide Review, No. 74, March 1990, p. 20
Hutchings, Peter ‘Disconnections and Misdirections’, Sydney Review, No. 23, April 1990, pp. 18-19
Kenneally, Catherine ‘Compelled to connect’, Australian Book Review, No. 118, 1990, pp. 15-16
Nelson, Penelope ‘Deep Sleep – a Nightmare, No Less’, Weekend Australian, 17-18 August 1991, Review p. 5
Wearne, Alan ‘Childhood Outshines Adult Plot’, Melbourne Sunday Herald, 25 February 1990, p. 38

Double-Wolf

Campbell, Marion ‘Double Writing/Bracketing Women’, Overland, No. 125, Summer 1991, pp. 87-88
Daniel, Helen ‘Plotting 8, an Account of Some Recent Australian Fiction: a Moment in the Sensible Flow’, Overland, No. 126, Autumn 1992, pp. 67-73
Daniel, Helen ‘Grand Arabesque Through Time’, Age Saturday Extra, 22 June 1991, p. 8
Dudley, Michael ‘Apologia Pro Vita Nostra: Critics and Psychiatrists’, in Harry Heseltine (ed.) Literature and Psychiatry: Bridging the Divide, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, 1992, pp. 67-98
Fuller, Peter ‘Freud’s Wolf’, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 July 1991, p. 41
Fuller, Peter ‘Wolves Howling at the Doors of Perception’, Canberra Times, 13 July 1991, p. C8
Grixti, Joe Untitled Review, Imago, Vol. 5, No. 2, August 1993, pp. 92-94
Johnson, Rob ‘A Reappraisal of the Wolf-Man’s Dreams’, Advertiser, 29 June 1991, p. 12
Jose, Nicholas ‘Reworking “The Wolf Man” ’, Voices, Vol. 1, No. 4, Summer (1991-1992) 1991, pp. 97-99
Kosky, Robert ‘Desires that Don’t Lie Down’, Editions 12, Spring 1991, pp. 24-25
McLaren, John ‘A Howler’, Australian Book Review, No. 132, July 1991, pp. 38-40
Melhem, Moha ‘Who’s Afreud …’, Australian Left Review, No. 131, August 1991, p. 46
Messer, Jane Australian Bookseller & Publisher, April 1991, p. 22
O’Loghlin, Libby ‘Castro Complex’, Redoubt, No. 21, 1995, pp. 113-115
Pierce, Peter ‘Katoomba the Missing Link’, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 July 1991, p. 41
Riemer, A.P. ‘Castro’s Worlds’, Independent Monthly, 1993, Vol. 4, No. 7, February pp. 27-28 [Also reviews Castro’s first four novels]
Salusinszky, Imre ‘The Unconscious—and the Maddeningly Self-Conscious’, Weekend Australian, 10-11 August 1991, Review p. 4
Tacey, David ‘Freud, Fiction and the Australian Mind’, Island Magazine, No. 49, Summer 1991, pp. 8-13
Walton, Sue ‘Rubbing in Freud’s Analyses’, Newcastle Herald, 28 September 1991, p. 12

Brief notices

Anon. Biography of Patrick White Wins ‘Age’ Book of the Year Award Age, 7 December 1991, p. 3

After China

Brooks, Jessica, ‘Writing Beyond Borders: Derrida, Heidegger and Zhuangzi in Brian Castro’s After China’ Neohelicon (2015) 42:625-638
Coad, David Untitled Review, World Literature Today, Vol. 67, No. 3, Summer 1993, p. 667
Craven, Peter ‘Double Delights’, Sunday Age (Agenda), 12 September 1993, p. 8
Daniel, Helen E. ‘Breaking Conventions: a Double-Folding Fan’, Australian Book Review, No. 142, July 1992, pp. 4-6
England, Katharine ‘Brilliant, Erotic Balance of Affair Consummated in Stories’, Advertiser Magazine, 17 October 1992, p. 6
Fuller, Peter ‘Groping Around in the Text’, Canberra Times, 10 October 1992, p. C9
Geason, Susan ‘In the China Hotel’, Sun-Herald, 6 September 1992, p. 118
Gilbey, David ‘When Hsiu Means Shu’, Australian Book Review, No. 142, July 1992, pp. 6-7
Grixti, Joe Untitled Review, Imago, Vol. 5, No. 2, August 1993, pp. 92-94
Gunn, Michelle ‘Novelist’s second win proves a literary first’, Australian, 13 September 1991, p. 3
Jose, Nicholas ‘About Books: China Matters’, National Library of Australia News, Vol. 2 No. 12, September 1992, pp. 8-10
Liang, Fen ‘Brian Castro’s After China—A Translation into Mandarin and a Study of the Novel’s Linguistic and Social Contexts in Australia and China’, unpublished PhD, Thesis, University of Western Australia, 1997
Liang, Fen ‘Castro’s After China in China,’ Otherland, No. 7
Messer, Jane ‘After “Double Wolf”’, Australian Bookseller & Publisher, Vol. 711, No. 1026, May 1992, p. 22
Pierce, Peter ‘Uprooting a Life’, Bulletin, Vol. 114, No. 5830, 28 July 1992, p. 91
Sharkey, Michael ‘Half this Tale’s in the Telling’, Weekend Australian, 22-23 August 1992, Review p. 7
Shaw, Janice ‘Intriguing Search for Sexuality’, Newcastle Herald, 14 November 1992, p. 4
Sorensen, Rosemary ‘Women in Water’, Meanjin, Vol. 52, No. 4, Summer 1993, pp. 778-783
Sorensen, Rosemary ‘Yearning for Diversion’, Australian Book Review, No. 142, July 1992, p. 8-9

Brief notices

Anderson, Don ‘Premier’s Awards a Constant, Too’, Sydney Morning Herald, 13 September 1993, p. 15
Carbines, Louise Literary Award for Bligh’s Language, Age, 13 September 1993, p. 6
Craven, Peter Premier Contenders Line Up in the Literary Stakes Sunday Age (Agenda), 5 September 1993, p. 9
Hefner, Robert [‘Lit Bits’] Canberra Times, 19 September 1993, p. 26

Drift

Barker, Karen ‘The Milk of Mother’s Kindness in Brian Castro’s Drift’, in Sharyn Pearce and Philip Nielsen (eds), Current Tensions: Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference, 6–11 July 1996, Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Brisbane, pp. 228-235.
Barlow, Damien ‘Authenticity/Hybridity and Pallawah Identities in Castro’s Drift’, Southerly, Vol. 58, No. 2, Winter 1998,
pp. 59-66
Brennan, Bernadette Documents: Absence and Negativity Conference Papers: Drift: Writing and/of Annihilation, Southerly, Vol. 60, No. 2, 2000, pp. 39–50
Clarke, Sally ‘Drift’, Redoubt, Vol. 22, June 1996, pp. 137-139
Coad, David Untitled review, World Literature Today, Vol. 69, No. 3, 1995, p. 641-642
Condon, Matthew ‘Set Adrift in the Life of Bryan’, Weekend Australian, 16-17 July 1994, Weekend p. 6
Daniel, Helen ‘Outside the Prison of Logic’, Island Magazine, No. 59, Winter 1994, pp. 20-29 [Focusses on Drift]
Elliott, Helen ‘Brilliant Display of Style’, Canberra Times, 9 July 1994, p. C11
England, Katharine ‘White Drifts Towards Black and Becomes Technicolour Grey’, Australian Book Review, No. 162, July 1994, pp. 12-13
Goodwin, Ken ‘Fiction and Life Coalesce’, Courier-Mail, 9 July 1994, Weekend p. 6
Hanrahan, John ‘Enjoying the View’, Age Saturday Extra, 20 August 1994, p. 8
Iffland, Katrina ‘Castro’s Call for Cultural Revolution’ Canberra Times, 12 August 1995, p. C13
Johnson, Rob ‘Novel Twist from Fiction to Reality’, Advertiser Magazine, 27 August 1994, p. 11
McGirr, Michael ‘Three’s Company’, Eureka Street, Vol. 4, No. 8, October 1994, pp. 41-42
Pierce, Peter ‘Marooned and Loving It’, Bulletin, Vol. 116, No. 5933, 16 August 1994, pp. 104-105
Riemer, Andrew ‘Brian’s Life of Byron, or Should that Be Bryan?’, Sydney Morning Herald, 2 July 1994, Spectrum p. 9A
Ruskin, Pamela ‘What’s New in Books’, Australian Jewish News, Vol. 60, No. 50, 2 September 1994, p. 51
Shmith, Michael ‘Castro’s Lament’ Age Saturday Extra, 20 August 1994, p. 8
Sorensen, Rosemary ‘Story Upon a Story is Mainly Sleight of Hand, Sunday Age (Agenda), 24 July 1994, p. 8

Brief notices

Maniaty, Tony Paperback, Weekend Australian, 27-28 May 1995, Review p. 8

Stepper

Brennan, Bernadette ‘Brian Castro’s Tokyo: Schizophrenic Semiotic’, ‘Australian Writing and the City’: Proceedings of the 1999 ASAL Conference, Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 2000, pp. 129–137
Broinowski, Alison ‘Tokyo Secrets’, Sydney Morning Herald, 22 March 1997, Spectrum, p. 10s
Craven, Peter ‘Drifting Away from the Thrill of it All’, Sunday Age, 6 April 1997, Agenda p. 8
Daniel, Helen ‘Double Trouble’, Age, Saturday, 22 March 1997 [no page, Extra, Arts and Books]
Daniel, Helen Editorial, Australian Book Review, No. 190, May 1997, p. 2
Deves, Michael ‘Authenticity in Brian Castro’s Stepper’, Westerly, Vol. 45, November 2000, pp. 60–70
England, Katharine ‘Deconstructing Castro’, Advertiser, 12 April 1997, Review p. 12
Foong Ling Kong ‘Interest in the Amoral’, Overland, No. 151, Winter 1998, pp. 106-107
Gerster, Robin ‘A Border Crosser’s Secret Service’, Bulletin, Vol. 116, No. 6064, 29 March 1997, pp. 74-75
Indyk, Ivor ‘Castro’s Spymaster Novel’, Australian Book Review, No. 190, May 1997, pp. 6-7
Juers, Evelyn ‘A Rich Cocktail’, Australian’s Review of Books, April 1997, pp. 3–4
Koval, Ramona ‘Ramona Koval interviews Brian Castro about his new novel, Stepper’, Australian Book Review, No. 190, May 1997, pp. 8-10
Matthews, David ‘Spy who stayed out in the cold’, Weekend Australian, Review, 12–13 April 1997, p. 9
Mazza, Aimée ‘Aimée Mazza Responds to Tessa Morris-Suzuki’, Meanjin, Vol. 56, No. 3-4, Winter 1997, pp. 743-744
Morris-Suzuki, Tessa ‘A Novel for the Nineties’, Meanjin, Vol. 56, No. 2, 1997, pp. 256-262
Neate, Jack ‘Castro at His Best’, Courier-Mail, 22 March 1997, Weekend p. 7
Pierce, Peter ‘The Precarious Business of Owning the Self’, Canberra Times, 29 March 1997, p. C11
Richardson, Owen ‘Fuzzing it with feeling’, Republican, 28 March 1997, p. 25

Brief notices

Clark, Andrew ‘Author takes a big step in the right direction’, Age, 26 September 1997, p. A8
Clark, Graham [Paperbacks], Courier-Mail, 8 November 1997, Weekend, p. 9
Griffin, Michelle [In paperback], Sunday Age, 2 November 1997, Inside Story. p. 12
Waldren, Murray [Page Turners] Weekend Australian, Magazine, 4-5 January 1997, p. 9

Shanghai Dancing

Chen, Beibei (2015) ‘Contesting Identity and Forming ‘Cosmopolitan Memory’ in Brian Castro’s Shanghai Dancing,’ Antipodes: Vol. 29: Iss. 2, Article 7, 2015
http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/antipodes/vol29/iss2/7
Campbell Marion May, ‘Radical Disorientalism in Brian Castro’s Shanghai Dancing’, Poetic Revolutionaries: Intertextuality & Subversion, Rodipi: Amsterdam, New York, 2014
Illgner, Amanda ‘Some life with Brian’ (book launch announcement), 19-25 May 2003, Sydney Writers’ Festival Events
Clancy, Laurie ‘Dancing to a tune of displacement’, Age, 26 April 2003, Review Books p. 5
Ley, James ‘Author behind the writer’, Sydney Morning Herald, 29–30 March 2003, Spectrum, p. 12
Moloughney, Brian ‘The bent hairpin of unreason: Brian Castro and auto/biography’, East Asian History, no. 29, June 2005, pp. 153-170
Pierce, Peter ‘Happy families in a funny sort of way’, Courier Mail, 12 April 2003, BAM, p. M08
Pierce, Peter (untitled review), The Bulletin, 21 May 2003
Sharkey, Michael ‘A blend of elegant leaps’, Weekend Australian, 19–20 April 2003, Review p. 12
Smith, Emily ‘Running from the family’, Sydney Writers’ Festival, In Conversation
Sullivan, Jane ‘Castro and the fiction of fiction’, Age, 22 March 2003, Review, p. 3

The Garden Book

Clausen, Mads, Journal of Australian Studies Review of Books, Online Issue 44, July, 2006.
Harvey, Melinda, ‘The Avant-garde Minder’, ABR, October 2005, p. 4.
England, Katharine, ‘A Most Fertile Garden’, The Advertiser, 10 September 2005.
Kong, Foong Ling, The Bulletin, 22 November, 2005, p.69.
Lifschitz, Yaron, ‘Thank Goodness For Writing Like This’, The Courier Mail, January, 2006, p. 5.
Ley, James, ‘The Meaning is Beside the Point’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 September, 2005.
Moloughney, Brian ‘The bent hairpin of unreason: Brian Castro and auto/biography’, East Asian History, no. 29, June 2005, pp. 153-170
Pierce, Peter, The Age, August 27, 2005.
Wassenaar, Ingrid, ‘Toccata and fugue in a postmodernist key’ The Australian, 20 August 2005.

References

The following is a list of all references to Brian Castro’s work. It repeats the references above in the classification by novel.

Anon. Winning Ways of Two Writers Weekend Australian (Magazine), 25-26 September 1982, p. 10
Anon. ‘A Sensitive Assignment’, Australian Bookseller & Publisher, Vol. 69, No. 1001, February 1990, p. 36
Barker, Karen ‘The Milk of Mother’s Kindness in Brian Castro’s Drift’, in Sharyn Pearce and Philip Nielsen (eds), Current Tensions: Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference, 6–11 July 1996, Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Brisbane, pp. 228-235.
Barker, Karen ‘The Artful Man: Theory and Creativity in Brian Castro’s Fiction’, Australian Literary Studies, Vo. 20, No, 3, May 2002, pp. 231–240
Barker, Karen ‘Theory as Fireworks: An Interview with Brian Castro’, Australian Literary Studies, Vo. 20, No, 3, May 2002, pp. 241–248
Barlow, Damien ‘Authenticity/Hybridity and Pallawah Identities in Castro’s Drift’, Southerly, Vol. 58, No. 2, Winter 1998, pp. 59-66
Bennett, Catherine The Asian Australian Migrant Experience in Australian Literature 1965-1995, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Western Australia, 1996
Bennett, Cathy [Catherine] ‘Asian Australian’ Migrant Identity: Brian Castro’s ‘Birds of Passage’ and ‘After China’, Proceedings: Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Sixteenth Annual Conference, 3-8 July 1994, convened by Susan Lever and Catherine Pratt, 1995, Association for the Study of Australian Literature/Department of English, ADFA, pp. 145-152)
Brennan, Bernadette ‘Brian Castro’s Tokyo: Schizophrenic Semiotic’, ‘Australian Writing and the City’: Proceedings of the 1999 ASAL Conference, Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 2000, pp. 129–137
Brennan, Bernadette Documents: Absence and Negativity Conference Papers: Drift: Writing and/of Annihilation, Southerly, Vol. 60, No. 2, 2000, pp. 39–50
Brissenden, R.F. ‘Dangerous Investigations’, Editions, No. 8-9, September 1990, pp. 7-8
Broinowski, Alison ‘Tokyo Secrets’, Sydney Morning Herald, 22 March 1997, Spectrum, p. 10s
Brooks, Jessica, ‘Writing Beyond Borders: Derrida, Heidegger and Zhuangzi in Brian Castro’s After China’ Neohelicon (2015) 42:625-638.
Burns, Graham ‘Travelling Birds’, Australian Book Review, No. 60, May 1984, pp. 17-18
Campbell, Marion ‘Double Writing/Bracketing Women’, Overland, No. 125, Summer 1991, pp. 87-88
chen, beibei (2015) ‘Contesting Identity and Forming ‘Cosmopolitan Memory’ in Brian Castro’s Shanghai Dancing,’ Antipodes: Vol. 29: Iss. 2, Article 7, 2015
Chenery, Susan ‘On the Inside of an Outsider’, Sydney Morning Herald (Spectrum), 1994, 2 July p. 10A
Clancy, Laurie ‘Dancing to a tune of displacement’, Age, 26 April 2003, Review Books p. 5
Clarke, Sally ‘Drift’, Redoubt, Vol. 22, June 1996, pp. 137-139
Clausen, Mads, Journal of Austrralian Studies Review of Books, Online Issue 44, July, 2006.
Coad, David Untitled Review, World Literature Today, Vol. 67, No. 3, Summer 1993, p. 667
Coad, David Untitled review, World Literature Today, Vol. 69, No. 3, 1995, p. 641-642
Condon,Matthew ‘Set Adrift in the Life of Bryan’, Weekend Australian, 16-17 July 1994, Weekend p. 6
Corkhill, Annette Australian Writing: Ethnic Writers 1945-1991, Forest Hill, Vic: Academia Press, 1994
Craven, Peter ‘Measured Words in a Maelstrom’, Australian, Higher Education, 1 May 1996, p. 39
Craven, Peter ‘Double Delights’, Sunday Age (Agenda), 12 September 1993, p. 8
Craven, Peter ‘Drifting Away from the Thrill of it All’, Sunday Age, 6 April 1997, Agenda p. 8
Craven, Peter Premier Contenders Line Up in the Literary Stakes Sunday Age (Agenda), 5 September 1993, p. 9
Creech, Nick ‘Winging Towards Elusive Heights’, Weekend Australian 20-21 August 1983, Magazine, p. 15
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16/03/2013

Turner was supported by one of England’s greatest creative art writers, the critic John Ruskin.

In a relaxed forum, explore this support in the context of contemporary writing and criticism. By John Neylon, arts writer and curator, and Professor Brian Castro, writer and Chair Creative Writing, University of Adelaide.

Cost: free. Radford Auditorium, Art Gallery of South Australia, Saturday 16 March 11 am

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