Elliot Perlman

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Elliot Perlman is a prize-winning author of two novels and one collection of short stories.

Elliot Perlman was born in 1964, the son of second generation Jewish Australians of East European descent. A native of Melbourne, Australia, Elliot Perlman is a barrister turned novelist who was not fully discovered in the sphere of literature until the age of thirty.

In 1994 he won the Age Short Story Competition for The Reasons I Won't Be Coming, a collection of short stories. Two years later one of these short stories, "Good Morning, Again" earned him further attention. In 1998, his first novel Three Dollars was published, and this went on to win The Age Book of the Year in Australia and the Betty Trask Prize.

[edit] His writings

• Three Dollars (1998)
• The Reasons I Won't Be Coming (1999)
• Seven Types of Ambiguity (2004)