Double-Wolf

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Double-Wolf
First edition
Author	Brian Castro
Language	English
Publisher	Allen & Unwin
Publication date	1991
Publication place	Australia
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	226
ISBN	0044423470
Preceded by	Pomeroy
Followed by	After China

Double-Wolf is a 1991 novel by Australian novelist Brian Castro.

Plot summary
Reviews
Awards and nominations
References

Plot summary

The novel is a fictionalised account of the life of Wolf-Man, Sigmund Freud's most famous patient, counter-pointed with an account of Artie Catacomb, a con-man and psychoanalyst living in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales.

Reviews

The Canberra Times^[1] - Reviewer Peter Fuller considered the novel to be the best imaginative writing of the year^[2]

Awards and nominations

1991 winner The Age Book of the Year Award — Imaginative Writing Prize
1992 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction^[3]
1992 winner Diabetes Australia Prize for Innovative Writing and the Sheaffer Pen Prize
1992 shortlisted Miles Franklin Award ^[4]

References

↑ Fuller, Peter (13 July 1991). "Wolves howling at the doors of perception". The Canberra Times.
↑ "Sifting through the wheat and chaff of this literary year". The Canberra Times. 28 December 1991.
↑ "Castro wins two writers' awards". The Sunday Age, 13 September 1992, p4. ProQuest 2521681420 . Retrieved 27 April 2024.
↑ ""Five vie for literary award"". The Canberra Times, 12 May 1992, p4. Retrieved 9 February 2024.

v t e Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction
1985-1989	Antipodes by David Malouf (1985) Illywhacker by Peter Carey (1986) Second Sight by Janine Burke (1987) Holden's Performance by Murray Bail (1988) Captivity Captive by Rodney Hall (1989)
1990-1999	Oceana Fine by Tom Flood (1990) Still Murder by Finola Moorhead (1991) Double-Wolf by Brian Castro (1992) After China by Brian Castro (1993) What I Have Written by John A. Scott (1994) Dark Places by Kate Grenville (1995) Camille's Bread by Amanda Lohrey (1996) The Drowner by Robert Drewe (1997) The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan (1998) Mr. Darwin's Shooter by Roger McDonald (1999)
2000-2009	Out of Ireland by Christopher Koch (2000) True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (2001) Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan (2002) Shanghai Dancing by Brian Castro (2003) Slow Water by Annamarie Jagose (2004) Surrender by Sonya Hartnett (2005) Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey (2006) Carpentaria by Alexis Wright (2007) The Spare Room by Helen Garner (2008) The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas (2009)
2010-2019	Truth by Peter Temple (2010) That Deadman Dance by Tim Scott (2011) Foal's Bread by Gillian Mears (2012) Coal Creek by Alex Miller (2014) To Name Those Lost by Rohan Wilson (2015) The World Without Us by Mireille Juchau (2016) Between a Wolf and a Dog by Georgia Blain (2017) Australia Day by Melanie Cheng (2018) The Madonna of the Mountains by Elise Valmorbida (2019)
2020–present	Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas (2020) The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay (2021) Smokehouse by Melissa Manning (2022) Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au (2023) Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko (2024) Highway 13 by Fiona McFarlane (2025)

v t e The Age Book of the Year Awards - Fiction
1974-1979	The Pure Land by David Foster (1974) A Kindness Cup by Thea Astley (1975) A Late Picking: Poems 1965–1974 by A. D. Hope (1976) No Award (1977) The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher Koch (1978) 1915: A Novel of Gallipoli by Roger McDonald (1979)
1980-1989	Homesickness by Murray Bail (1980) A Woman of the Future by David Ireland (1980) Turtle Beach by Blanche d'Alpuget (1981) Fly Away Peter by David Malouf (1982) Mr Scobie's Riddle by Elizabeth Jolley (1983) The Bellarmine Jug by Nicholas Hasluck (1984) Illywhacker by Peter Carey (1985) Sister Ships and Other Stories by Joan London (1986) Stories from the Warm Zone by Jessica Anderson (1987) Forty-Seventeen by Frank Moorhouse (1988) My Father's Moon by Elizabeth Jolley (1989)
1990-1999	Longleg by Glenda Adams (1990) Double-Wolf by Brian Castro (1991) Lovers' Knots by Marion Halligan (1992) The Georges' Wife by Elizabeth Jolley (1993) The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey (1994) Billy Sunday by Rod Jones (1995) The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow by Thea Astley (1996) Jack Maggs by Peter Carey (1997) Three Dollars by Elliot Perlman (1998) The Deep Field by James Bradley (1999)
2000-2009	Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop by Amy Witting (2000) True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (2001) Gilgamesh by Joan London (2002) Of a Boy by Sonya Hartnett (2003) The White Earth by Andrew McGahan (2004) Sixty Lights by Gail Jones (2005) Dead Europe by Christos Tsiolkas (2006) Every Move You Make by David Malouf (2007) Breath by Tim Winton (2008) Things We Didn't See Coming by Steven Amsterdam (2009)
2010-2012	Lovesong by Alex Miller (2010) Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor (2011) Foal's Bread by Gillian Mears (2012)
2021-	The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott (2021) In Moonland by Miles Allinson (2022) Limberlost by Robbie Arnott (2023) Women & Children by Tony Birch (2024) Vortex by Rodney Hall (2025)

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Double-Wolf

Contents

Plot summary

Reviews

Awards and nominations

References