André Dao André Dao i(A121755 works by)
Gender: Male
Heritage: Vietnamese
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BiographyHistory

Andre Dao was in Year 12 when story 'Vuot Bien - The Search for Freedom : Huong Thi Nguyen's Story' was published. He is a nephew of Huong Thi Nguyen.

He has subsequently become the co-founder of Behind the Wire, an oral history project documenting people’s experience of immigration detention, and the deputy editor of the New Philosopher.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2024 winner Walkley Award Walkley-Pascall Award for Arts Criticism for pieces published in the Saturday PaperMeanjin and Liminal Review of Books: ‘Review of Nam Le’s 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem’, ‘A Minor Australian Literature’, and ‘Fugue’.
2024 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups
2022 recipient The Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund for travel to the UK for the book tour of his debut novel Anam (PRH), and to conduct preliminary research on his follow-up novel in Paris

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Anam Camberwell : Hamish Hamilton , 2023 25676753 2023 single work novel

'Anam is a novel about memory and inheritance, colonialism and belonging, home and exile.

'A grandson tries to learn the family story. But what kind of story is it? Is it a prison memoir, about the grandfather imprisoned without charge or trial by a revolutionary government? Is it an oral history of the grandmother left behind to look after the children? Or is it a love story, or a detective tale?

'Moving from 1930s Hanoi through a series of never-ending wars and displacements to Saigon, Paris, Melbourne and Cambridge, Anam is a novel about memory and inheritance, colonialism and belonging, home and exile.

'Andre Dao mines his family and personal stories to turnover ideas that resonate with all of us around place and home, family legacy and expectations, ambition and sacrifice.

'Anam blends fiction and essay, theory and everyday life to imagine that which has been repressed, left out, and forgotten by archives and by families. As the grandson sifts through letters, photographs, government documents and memories, he has his own family to think about- a partner and an infant daughter. Is there a way to remember the past that creates a future for them as well? Or does coming home always involve a certain amount of forgetting?' (Publication summary)

2024 shortlisted Voss Literary Prize
2024 winner Prime Minister's Literary Awards Fiction
2024 winner The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist of the Year
2024 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
2024 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
2024 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Multicultural NSW Award
2023 winner 'The Nib': CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature Mark and Evette Moran Nib Award for Literature The Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize
2023 shortlisted Mark and Evette Moran Nib Award for Literature
2021 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
y separately published work icon Poetic Justice : Contemporary Australian Voices on Equality and Human Rights Melbourne : Right Now , 2014 8140569 2014 anthology poetry essay short story

'Surely human rights abuse is something experienced by people overseas, in far-away countries, but not in Australia, not anymore.

'Poetic Justice is a collection of essays, fiction, poetry and visual art about human rights issues in Australia—issues that haven’t gone away, or gone elsewhere. From asylum seekers to Indigenous land rights; from the surveillance state to police racism, this anthology chronicles contemporary Australian debates about social justice. Each of the works is an exercise in compassion as Poetic Justice seeks to recover the humanity too often lost in our discussions of human rights.

'Poetic Justice is also an anthology of work published by Right Now, a not-for-profit media organisation with a focus on human rights issues in Australia. Since 2005 we have covered human rights issues through accessible and engaging online, print and radio media.' (Publication summary)

2014 shortlisted Human Rights Awards Literature Non-Fiction Award
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