Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman ( born May 7, 1964 in Melbourne) is an Australian writer.

Life

Perlman's grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Europe. He studied law until 1989 at Monash University in Melbourne, worked in a law firm and was called to the bar in 1997. In 1994, he won a writing contest for short stories and has since published a collection of short stories and three novels. His novel Three Dollars was filmed in 2005 by Robert Connolly, who also wrote the screenplay with him. In the novel soundtracks Perlman is among other things after the interviews, in 1946, chronicled the American psychiatrist David P. Boder with Holocaust survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Perlman lives in Melbourne.

Works (selection)

  • Languages: novel. From the English by Grete Osterwald. German publishing house, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-421-04373-3. (The street sweeper, 2011)
  • Seven pages of truth. From the English by Matthias Jendis. German publishing house, Munich 2008. ( Seven Types of Ambiguity, 2003)
  • Three Dollar: Roman. From the English by Henning Ahrens. German publishing house, Munich 2010. ( Three Dollars, 1998)
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