Dylin Hardcastle

Dylin Hardcastle (they/them) is an award-winning author, artist, screenwriter and scholar based on Gadigal Land.

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Dylin's novel, A Language of Limbs won the 2023 Kathleen Mitchell Literary Award, presented by the Australia Council for the Arts. The novel was released in July 2024 in Australia and New Zealand by Picador, and is slated for publication in 2025 with Dutton (Penguin Random House) in North America, Verve Books in the United Kingdom and Amorf Kitap in Türkiye.

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Dylin's 2020 novel, Below Deck was published in ten territories and translated into eight languages. It was reviewed to critical acclaim in publications such as Le Monde (France), Zeit (Germany), and The Guardian and the Australian Book Review.

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Dylin is also the co-creator, co-writer and co-director of Cloudy River, which was made with completion funding from Queer Screen, and principal funding from Screen Australia. The show was produced by Confidante Pictures, and distributed by Escapade Media. It premiered at Mardi Gras Film Festival in 2020 and was later acquired by SBS On Demand.

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In 2018, Dylin was a Provost's Scholar at Worcester College, at the University of Oxford. They were one of the first two Australians to receive this scholarship.

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Previously in Australia, Dylin completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts (SCA), majoring in painting, in 2016. They completed Honours in Visual Arts at SCA on an academic scholarship from the University of Sydney in 2017, graduating with First Class Honours and an Academic Merit Award.

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Dylin's memoir, Running like China is published by Hachette and was released in September 2015. Dylin's debut novel for young adults, Breathing Under Water is also published by Hachette and was released in July 2016. Bolinda Audio published both books as audio books.

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