Books
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Bibliography

  1. (2005)

    The Reasons I Won't Be Coming

  2. (2004)

    Seven Types of Ambiguity

  3. Three Dollars

  4. The Street Sweeper

See complete bibliography (4)

Personal edit see section history

  • Legal name: Elliot Perlman
  • Birthdate: May 7, 1964 (age 48)
  • Birthplace: , Australia
  • Nationality: Australian
  • Gender: Male
  • Official Website: (add)
  • Genres: fiction

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An interview with Elliot Perlman by Powell's can be read here.
A page for him on LibraryThing.com can be seen here.
BBC Meet the Writers featured him -- you can read it here.
A radio interview with Elliot Perlman can be read here.
Elliot Perlman's wikipedia page can be seen here.

Elliot Perlman has been awarded the following awards:

  • 2005: Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards, Best Adapted Screenplay: winner for Three Dollars
  • 2005: Film Critics Circle of Australia, Best Screenplay - Adapted: winner for Three Dollars
  • 2005: AWGIE Awards, Film Award, Feature: shortlisted for Three Dollars
  • 2004: Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book: shortlisted for Seven Types of Ambiguity
  • 2004: Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Best Fiction Book: shortlisted for Seven Types of Ambiguity
  • 2004: Miles Franklin Award: shortlisted for Seven Types of Ambiguity
  • 2000: Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award: joint winner for The Reasons I Won't Be Coming
  • 1999: Betty Trask Award for Commonwealth Writers Under 35 Years: winner for Three Dollars
  • 1999: Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Best Literary Work Advancing Public Debate: joint winner for Three Dollars
  • 1999: Miles Franklin Award: shortlisted for Three Dollars
  • 1998: The Age Book of the Year Award, Book of the Year: winner for Three Dollars
  • 1998: The Age Book of the Year Award, Fiction Prize: winner for Three Dollars
  • 1994: The Age Short Story Award: winner for The Reasons I Won't Be Coming
He is the son of second generation Jewish Australians of East European descent. Elliot Perlman studied law at Monash University, graduating in 1989. He was called to the Bar in 1997, and it was while working as a barrister, that he started writing short stories. He currently lives in Melbourne, Australia.

One of his books, "Three Dollars" was made into a movie in 2005. It was directed by Robert Connolly, and starred David Wenham and Frances O'Connor.

Elliot Perlman said he once met a reader who waited for him with flowers in her car outside his house. The relationship didn't last but he must be a fairly friendly guy to have greeted her at all. =)