Brian Castro

Born in 1950 Brian Castro has spent most of his life in Australia since being sent to boarding school there in 1961. He has taught in schools and universities and for some years was the literary critic for Asiaweek. Since the early 1990s has been able to write fiction more or less full-time. He currently lives outside of Melbourne in the Dandenong ranges where he is completing Shanghai Dancing, a fictional work based on his family's life in China in the 1930s.