Elliot Perlman 2013

Elliot
Perlman

Elliot Perlman is the recipient of the Queensland Premier’s award for Advancing Public Debate and has been described by the Times Literary Supplement (UK) as ‘Australia’s outstanding social novelist’, by Le Nouvelle Observateur (France) as the ‘Zola d’Australie’ and by Lire (France) as ‘the classic of tomorrow’, one of the ’50 most important writers in the world’.

His most recent novel is the national bestseller, The Street Sweeper. He lives in Melbourne.

Elliot Perlman’s Three Dollars won the Age Book of the Year Award, the Betty Trask Award (UK), the Fellowship of Australian Writers’ Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn-Rhys/Mail On Sunday Book of the Year Award (UK) as well as for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Elliot Perlman also co-wrote the screenplay for the film of Three Dollars, which received the Australian Film Critics’ Circle Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as well as the A.F.I. Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Perlman’s second novel, Seven Types of Ambiguity, was a bestseller in France where it was described as ‘one of the best novels of recent years, a complete success’ (Le Monde). In Germany it was called a ‘literary sensation’ (Deutschlandradio), ‘an impressive, iridescent all-encompassing view of feeling’ (Der Spiegel), and described as having ‘the virtues of the great modern European novel’ (Süddeutsche Zeitung). It was a bestseller in the United States where it was described as having ‘traces of Dickens’s range and of George Eliot’s generous humanist spirit’ (New York Times) and named a New York Times Book Review ‘Editors’ Choice’, a New York Times Book Review ‘Notable Book of the Year’ and a Washington Post ‘Editors’ Choice’ as well as one of its all-time dozen favourites ‘on the pain of love’. In the UK it was described as ‘a colossal achievement….a tour de force…(in which) at the end, in a comprehensive, an almost Shakespearian way, Perlman picks up every loose thread and knots it’ (The Observer) and named a Sunday Telegraph ‘Book of the Year’. In Australia it was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award as well as for the Queensland Premier’s Award for Fiction.

Elliot Perlman is the recipient of the Queensland Premier’s award for Advancing Public Debate and has been described by the Times Literary Supplement (UK) as ‘Australia’s outstanding social novelist’, by Le Nouvelle Observateur (France) as the ‘Zola d’Australie’ and by Lire (France) as ‘the classic of tomorrow’, one of the ’50 most important writers in the world’.

His most recent novel is the national bestseller, The Street Sweeper. He lives in Melbourne.

Elliot Perlman’s Three Dollars won the Age Book of the Year Award, the Betty Trask Award (UK), the Fellowship of Australian Writers’ Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn-Rhys/Mail On Sunday Book of the Year Award (UK) as well as for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Elliot Perlman also co-wrote the screenplay for the film of Three Dollars, which received the Australian Film Critics’ Circle Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as well as the A.F.I. Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Perlman’s second novel, Seven Types of Ambiguity, was a bestseller in France where it was described as ‘one of the best novels of recent years, a complete success’ (Le Monde). In Germany it was called a ‘literary sensation’ (Deutschlandradio), ‘an impressive, iridescent all-encompassing view of feeling’ (Der Spiegel), and described as having ‘the virtues of the great modern European novel’ (Süddeutsche Zeitung). It was a bestseller in the United States where it was described as having ‘traces of Dickens’s range and of George Eliot’s generous humanist spirit’ (New York Times) and named a New York Times Book Review ‘Editors’ Choice’, a New York Times Book Review ‘Notable Book of the Year’ and a Washington Post ‘Editors’ Choice’ as well as one of its all-time dozen favourites ‘on the pain of love’. In the UK it was described as ‘a colossal achievement….a tour de force…(in which) at the end, in a comprehensive, an almost Shakespearian way, Perlman picks up every loose thread and knots it’ (The Observer) and named a Sunday Telegraph ‘Book of the Year’. In Australia it was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award as well as for the Queensland Premier’s Award for Fiction.

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