Dylin Hardcastle is an award-winning author, screenwriter, artist and former provost’s scholar at the University of Oxford, currently living on unceded Gadigal land. They are the author of four books and the co-writer and co-director of the SBS-acquired series Cloudy River. Their work has been published to critical acclaim in eleven territories and translated into eight languages. Their most recent novel, A Language of Limbs, won the 2023 Creative Australia Kathleen Mitchell Award, was shortlisted for Dymocks Book of the Year 2024, longlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize and has been optioned for television by Curio (Sony Pictures). 

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