- Eric Dando
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footnotes =Eric Yoshiaki Dando (born June 1970), is a
Melbourne writer, best known for the cult novel "Snail" (Penguin, 1996), although his short fiction has appeared in many collections, most notably "Cordite" and the "Sleepers Anthologies".Biography
Eric Dando was born in Tokyo but grew up in Melbourne. He was associated with the short lived grunge and
dirty realism movements in Australian literature in the 1990s. "Snail" attracted widespread attention as one of the very few unsolicited novels published by a major publishing company — at the time, he was the youngest Australian writer published by Penguin. The story behind its publication became a minor sensation: Dando submitted it to the publisher bound in floorboards (some say palings from a fence).His most recent novel titled [http://www.readings.com.au/product/9780980517903/oink-oink-oink-a-savage-modern-fable/ "Oink, Oink, Oink"] : is a surreal, black-comedy that plays with themes from
science fiction ,pop culture , consumerism, andgenetic engineering . It was published in October 2008.Bibliography
Novels
* "Snail" (Penguin, 1996)
* "Oink, Oink, Oink: a savage modern fable" (Hunter, 2008)External links
* [http://www.hunterpublishers.com.au/ "Hunter"]
* [http://www.cordite.org.au/ "Cordite"]
* [http://www.sleeperspublishing.com/ Sleepers Publishing]
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