Prof Brian Castro
Professorial Research Fellow, Creative Writing
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 eight 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. He is currently a Professorial Research Fellow in creative writing at the University of Melbourne.
Current research
Brian Castro's recent research has focussed on the fugue, in both its psychological and musical forms. His forthcoming novel is entitled The Bath Fugues. He is currently engaged in research on melancholy and its relationship to creativity.
Publications
Novels
- CASTRO, Brian. The Garden Book, (Sydney: Giramondo, 2005).
- CASTRO, Brian. Shanghai Dancing, (Sydney: Giramondo, 2003). Forthcoming: (NY: Kaya Press, 2007), (Shanghai: Shanghai Translation Publishing House, 2009).
- CASTRO, Brian. Stepper, (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).
- CASTRO, Brian. Drift, (Melbourne: Heinemann, 1994).
- CASTRO, Brian. After China, (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).
- CASTRO, Brian. Double-Wolf, (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1991). New Australian edition with an introduction by Katharine England, (Adelaide: Lythrum Press, 2005).
- CASTRO, Brian. Pomeroy, (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1990). Pomeroy, Trans. German, Hans J. Schütz(Stuttgart: Klett Cotta Verlag, 1998).
- CASTRO, Brian. Birds of Passage, (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).
Radio plays
- CASTRO, Brian. Nightsafe Area, Broadcast, ABC radio. 13/7/95, re-broadcast 'Soundstage' 8/4/97.
- CASTRO, Brian. Secrets, Broadcast, ABC FM, re-broadcast Radio National, March, 1994.
Stage plays
- CASTRO, Brian. After China, Stage adaptation by Peter Copeman, Belvoir Street Theatre, 1998.
- CASTRO, Brian. Secrets, Monologue for the Sydney Festival performed by John Derum. ANZ Theatre, Darling Harbour, 27th-30th January, 1994.
Monographs
- CASTRO, Brian. Writing AsiaandAuto/biography: Two Lectures University College, Australian Defence Force Academy, January, 1996.
Selected essays
- CASTRO, Brian. Looking for Estrellita -Essays on Writing and Culture, (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1999).
Articles
- CASTRO, Brian. 'Twice Born: Risk and Trespass in White's Patrick', HEAT, July, 2007.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'Memoir Anyone?', The Age, A2, June 30, 2007.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'Written Kisses', Meanjin, Vol 66 No. 1, April, 2007. Reprinted, 'Language Gives You Wings', The Age, A2, April 7, 2007.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'Memory/Memorial', Anglophonia. The French Journal Of English Studies (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail), Volume 21, 2007.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'Parleying Apocalypse', Meanjin, Vol. 64, No. 4. 2005. On line: http://www.meanjin.unimelb.edu.au/responses.htm
- CASTRO, Brian. 'Caesura', in Griffith Review, Vol. 6, Summer, 2004-5.
- CASTRO, Brian. Entry in Authors Take Sides, edited by Jean Moorcroft Wilson & Cecil Woolf, Melbourne University Press, July 2004.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'Through a Glass Darkly -W.G. Sebald's Overcast Style' HEAT 7, 2004.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'Forgetting Paris', in The Australian Author, July, 2003.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'BlueMax - a tribute to W.G. Sebald', HEAT 3, New Series, May, 2002. Best Australian Essays 2002, ed. Peter Craven, Black Inc. Books, 2002.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'The Persistence of Memory', in Victor Barker, ed., Paris Studio, Halstead Press, 2001.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'Volées', Catalogue essay for John Young's Exhibition Pine's Edge. Anna Schwartz Galleries, 2001.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'Auto/biographie', Paris, Vacarme, No. 15, Printemps, 2001, Trans. Isabelle Lee.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'Cultural Cringe' Meanjin, Vol. 59 No. 3, 2000.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'Identity Papers', The Australian's Review of Books, 9 June, 1999.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'Autobiography and Disinheritance', Australian Humanities Review,
- February,1999.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'The Role Of The Critic', Australian Book Review, November, 1997.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'Writing Stepper', The Shincho Magazine, Tokyo, Japan, Vol. 11, 1997, Aurora Australis http://www.australis.org, 1997.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'Masked Balls' HEAT, Vol.1, July, 1996.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'Nature Morte' Art Monthly/Australian Book Review, August, 1996.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'Heterotopias: Writing and Location. The Australian Context' Australian Literary Studies. Winter 1995.
- CASTRO, Brian. Introduction to Beyond Black and White; photography and texts ed. Andy Park (Panda Press), 1995.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'Just Flirting', The Australian Book Review, June, 1995.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'Lesions' Meanjin, Vol. 54, No.1, 1995.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'Continental Drift', The Sydney Institute Papers, August, 1994.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'On the last ten years', The Good Weekend, September, 1994.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'On Grief' Saturday Extra, The Age, 1993.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'The Public and the Private - a meditation on noise', Island magazine, Winter, 1991.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'Necessary Idiocy' in Striking Chords, Allen & Unwin November, 1991. First published in The Age Monthly Review, February 1989.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'On Landscape and Inspiration', The Good Weekend, November, 1991.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'On Gail Morgan', Editions, July, 1990.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'Finding A Voice' Asiaweek, May 3, 1985.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'Winning The Race' Harper's Bazaar, March, 1985.
- CASTRO, Brian. 'Memoirs of a Displaced Person' National Times January 6 -12, 1984.
- CASTRO, Brian. Writing In Multicultural Australia, Ed. A. Ward, Sydney: Australia Council Published Papers, 1984.