selected Writing
Review of Nam Le’s 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, The Saturday Paper
A Minor Australian Literature, Meanjin
Paris Syndrome, The Good Weekend
Italo Calvino & the Trans-Mongolian Railway, Spectrum
Reading Proust on the Beach, New Australian Fiction
Virtue Signals: Big Tech’s Morality Grab, Griffith Review
Consolations: on Miyakatsu Koike, Sydney Review of Books
Five Stelae in Commemoration of Forgetting, Against Disappearance
Breaking the Mirror: on Viet Thanh Nguyen, Sydney Review of Books
On the chain, The Monthly (with Michael Green & Sherry Huang)
June Andrews Award for Industrial Relations Reporting, Mid-Year Walkleys
We feed you, The Saturday Paper (with Michael Green & Tia Kass)
Reporting on Multicultural Awards, Quill Awards
Who owns the future? Techno-dreams and progressive cynicism, Griffith Review
Media Award, Australian Human Rights Commission
Highly Commended, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards
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Grand Award – New York Festivals international radio awards
UN Association of Australia Media Award for Best Radio Documentary
Walkley Award for Radio/Audio Feature
Australian Human Rights Commission Media Award
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Best Temporary or Travelling Exhibition, Museums and Galleries National Award (2018)
Contribution to Multiculturalism by a Community Organisation, Melbourne Awards
About
André Dao is a Melbourne-based writer, editor and artist. His debut novel, Anam, won the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. His writing has appeared in Meanjin, Sydney Review of Books, Griffith Review, The Monthly, The Lifted Brow, Cordite, The Saturday Paper, New Philosopher, Arena Magazine, Asia Literary Review and elsewhere.
He is the co-founder of Behind the Wire, the award-winning oral history project documenting the stories of the adults and children who have been detained by the Australian government after seeking asylum in Australia. His work for Behind the Wire includes a Quill award winning article for The Saturday Paper, and the Walkley Award-winning podcast, The Messenger. He co-edited Behind the Wire’s collection of literary oral histories They Cannot Take the Sky.
He is also a member of the Manus Recording Project Collective, whose work has been exhibited in the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne and the City Gallery, Wellington.
Photo by Leah Jing McIntosh
Contact
andre.huy.dao@gmail.com
Agent (ANZ): Clare Forster || Claref@curtisbrown.com.au
Agent (UK): Sabhbh Curran || Sabhbh.Curran@curtisbrown.co.uk
Agent (US): Amelia Atlas || amelia.atlas@icmpartners.com
Translation rights: Katie McGowan || katie.mcgowan@curtisbrown.co.uk
Publicity (ANZ): Bella Arnott-Hoare || bahoare@penguinrandomhouse.com.au
Publicity (UK): Camilla Elworthy || camilla.elworthy@macmillan.com