André Dao

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 His debut novel, Anam, won the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. He is the co-founder of Behind the Wire, an award-winning oral history project documenting the experiences of people detained by the Australian government after seeking asylum.

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All essays by André Dao

Review: André Daoon Miyakatsu Koike
  • Four Years in a Red Coat: The Loveday Internment Camp diary of Miyakatsu Koike by Miyakatsu Koike, Hiroko Cockerill, Peter Monteath, Yuriko Nagata Wakefield Press
    214pp
    Published January 2022
    ISBN: 9781743058961

Consolations

The first mystery concerns Koike, a 37-year-old bank employee. Why did he keep a diary of his internment, when most others did not?

Sep. 2022 •
Review: André Daoon Viet Thanh Nguyen
  • The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen Hachette
    368pp
    Published March 2021
    ISBN: 9781472152510

Breaking the Mirror

6 JANUARY 2021. A nondescript room in the US Capitol Building. A Confederate flag is planted in a bin in the corner. Beside it is the flag of the Republic of Vietnam, three horizontal red stripes on a yellow field. Three young men stand around a book on the floor. They each have their phones out, cameras facing each other.
Jul. 2021 •