Brian Castro
- January 9, 2024
- Writer
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Brian Castro Biography
| Name | Brian Castro |
| Birthday | Jan 16 |
| Birth Year | 1950 |
| Place Of Birth | Hong Kong |
| Home Town | Hong Kong |
| Birth Country | Australia |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
Brian Castro is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on January 16, 1950 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Australia. Brian Albert Castro (born 16 January 1950) is an Australian novelist and essayist.
In 2014 he won the Patrick White Award for Literature for his contribution to Australian Literature.
Brian Castro Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Writer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Brian Castro is one of the richest Writer from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Brian Castro 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Castro was born in Hong Kong and has lived in Australia since 1961. He was Chair of Creative Writing (2008-2019) at the University of Adelaide and Director of the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice. His publisher is Giramondo Publishing.
Born in Hong Kong of Portuguese, Chinese and English parentage, Brian Castro was educated at St Joseph’s College Hunter’s Hill and the University of Sydney, after which he worked in Australia, France and Hong Kong as a teacher and writer. His first novel Birds Of Passage (1983) won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award. Double-Wolf (1991) won The Age Fiction Prize, the Vance Palmer Prize and the Innovative Writing Prize at the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. After China (1992) again won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. His sixth novel, Stepper (1997), was awarded the National Book Council Prize for Fiction. Shanghai Dancing was published by Giramondo in March 2003, winning the Victorian Premier’s Award, the NSW Premier’s Award and was named NSW Book of the Year. The Garden Book won the 2006 Queensland Premier’s Award and The Bath Fugues was short-listed for the Miles Franklin Award, the South Australian Premier’s Literary Award, the Queensland Premier’s Fiction Prize and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. In 2012 he published Street To Street, inspired by the life of the poet Christopher Brennan (Giramondo). His latest novel was Blindness and Rage which won the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry in 2018 (Giramondo, 2017.) He currently lives in the Adelaide Hills.[1]
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Brian Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Brian Castro celebrates birthday on January 16 of every year.