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Elliot Perlman
Elliot Perlman
Born	1964; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation	Novelist
Notable awards	Age Book of the Year Award

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Elliot Perlman (born 7 May 1964) is an Australian author and barrister. He has written four novels (Three Dollars, Seven Types of Ambiguity, The Street Sweeper and Maybe the Horse Will Talk), one short story collection (The Reasons I Won't Be Coming) and a book for children.

Life

Perlman is the son of second-generation Jewish Australians of East European descent.^[1] He studied law at Monash University in Melbourne, graduating in 1989.^[2] He was called to the Bar in 1997, but while working as a judge's associate in the early 1990s he started writing short stories. He lives in Melbourne.^[3]^[4]

Writing career

In 1994 he won The Age Short Story Award for "The Reasons I Won't Be Coming",^[5] a short story that later gave the title to his first collection of short stories, published in 1999. In 1998, his first novel, Three Dollars, was published. It won The Age Book of the Year^[3]^[6] and the Betty Trask Prize.^[7] His second novel, Seven Types of Ambiguity, was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, Australia's most prestigious literary award, in 2004.^[8] Perlman's third novel, The Street Sweeper, was published in 2011. In an interview in 2001 he named Graham Greene as one of the writers who inspire him, describing Greene as "a master of beautifully crisp, clean and spare prose".^[9]

Themes and style

His work "condemns the economic rationalism that destroys the humanity of ordinary people when they are confronted with unemployment and poverty."^[10] This is not surprising in a writer who admires Raymond Carver and Graham Greene because they "write with quite a strong moral centre and a strong sense of compassion."^[9] However, he says, "Part of my task is to entertain readers. I don't want it to be propaganda at all. I don't think that for something to be political fiction it has to offer an alternative; I think just a social critique is enough."^[9] He describes himself, in fact, as being interested in "the essence of humanity" and argued that exploring this often means touching on political issues.^[9] Perlman often uses music, and song lyrics, in his work to convey an idea or mood, or to give a sense of who a character is. However, he recognises that this is "a bit of a risk because the less familiar the reader is with the song, the smaller the pay off."^[9]

Adaptations

His novel Three Dollars was produced as a film in 2005. It was directed by Robert Connolly, and starred David Wenham and Frances O'Connor. Perlman and Connolly jointly adapted the novel.

A six-part series based on Seven Types of Ambiguity was screened on ABC Television in 2017.

Awards and nominations

2019: Children's Peace Literature Award: shortlisted for The Adventures of Catvinkle^[11]
2012: Miles Franklin Award: longlisted for The Street Sweeper
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

Bibliography

Novels

Three Dollars (1998)
Seven Types of Ambiguity (2003)
The Street Sweeper (2011)
Maybe the Horse Will Talk (2019)

Short story collection

The Reasons I Won't Be Coming (1999)

For children

The Adventures of Catvinkle, illustrated by Laura Stitzel (2018)
Catvinkle and the Missing Tulips, illustrated by Laura Stitzel (2020)

External links

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man at barristers.com.au
Q & A with Elliot Perlman at the State Library of Victoria website
2012 radio interview (one hour) at The Bat Segundo Show

References

^ "Meet the writers: Elliot Perlman"
^ Monash Law Matters 2005/06
^ ^a ^b "Elliot J PERLMAN". barristers.com.au/. Archived from the original on 2 September 2007. Retrieved 25 November 2008.
^ "Limmud-Oz 2008 – Festival of Jewish Learning & Culture – Elliot Perlman". shalom.edu.au/. Shalom Institute. 14 September 2003. Archived from the original on 21 July 2008. Retrieved 25 November 2008.
^ "Books and Writing – John Mortimer & Elliot Perlman". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 14 September 2003. Retrieved 25 November 2008.
^ "Three Dollars – Elliot Perlman – 1998". middlemiss.org. Retrieved 25 November 2008.
^ Betty Trask prize Archived 9 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Announcing the 2004 Miles Franklin Literary Award Winner" Archived 22 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Byrne, Madeleine (2001), "The world is closing in: an interview with Elliot Perlman", Antipodes, 15 (1): 10–12
^ Perlman, Elliot, austlit.edu.au
^ "'Missing Marvin' wins Children's Peace Literature Award". Books+Publishing. 12 November 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2020.

[bbcws-1] "Meet the writers: Elliot Perlman"

[monash-2] Monash Law Matters 2005/06

[BarristersComAu_ElliotJPerlman-3] "Elliot J PERLMAN". barristers.com.au/. Archived from the original on 2 September 2007. Retrieved 25 November 2008.

[ShalomEduAu_LimmudOz08_Presenters_Perlman-4] "Limmud-Oz 2008 – Festival of Jewish Learning & Culture – Elliot Perlman". shalom.edu.au/. Shalom Institute. 14 September 2003. Archived from the original on 21 July 2008. Retrieved 25 November 2008.

[ABC_BooksandWriting_14Sep2003-5] "Books and Writing – John Mortimer & Elliot Perlman". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 14 September 2003. Retrieved 25 November 2008.

[Middlemiss_LarrikinLiterature_ThreeDollars-6] "Three Dollars – Elliot Perlman – 1998". middlemiss.org. Retrieved 25 November 2008.

[btp-7] Betty Trask prize Archived 9 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine

[mf2004-8] "Announcing the 2004 Miles Franklin Literary Award Winner" Archived 22 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine

[MB-9] Byrne, Madeleine (2001), "The world is closing in: an interview with Elliot Perlman", Antipodes, 15 (1): 10–12

[AL-10] Perlman, Elliot, austlit.edu.au

[11] "'Missing Marvin' wins Children's Peace Literature Award". Books+Publishing. 12 November 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2020.

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+</ref> a short story that later gave the title to his first collection of short stories, published in 1999. In 1998, his first novel, ''[[Three Dollars (novel)|Three Dollars]]'', was published. It won [[The Age Book of the Year Awards|''The Age'' Book of the Year]]<ref name=BarristersComAu_ElliotJPerlman>
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-</ref> and the [[Betty Trask Prize]].<ref name=btp>[http://facstaff.unca.edu/moseley/trask.html Betty Trask prize] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090509002251/http://facstaff.unca.edu/moseley/trask.html |date=9 May 2009 }}</ref> His second novel, ''[[Seven Types of Ambiguity (novel)|Seven Types of Ambiguity]]'', was shortlisted for the [[Miles Franklin Award]], Australia's most prestigious literary award, in 2004.<ref name=mf2004>[http://www.stateart.com.au/sota/news/default.asp?fid=2712 Announcing the 2004 Miles Franklin Literary Award Winner] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080722163801/http://www.stateart.com.au/sota/news/default.asp?fid=2712 |date=22 July 2008 }}</ref> Perlman's third novel, ''The Street Sweeper'', was published in 2011.
+</ref> and the [[Betty Trask Prize]].<ref name=btp>[http://facstaff.unca.edu/moseley/trask.html Betty Trask prize] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090509002251/http://facstaff.unca.edu/moseley/trask.html |date=9 May 2009 }}</ref> His second novel, ''[[Seven Types of Ambiguity (novel)|Seven Types of Ambiguity]]'', was shortlisted for the [[Miles Franklin Award]], Australia's most prestigious literary award, in 2004.<ref name=mf2004>[http://www.stateart.com.au/sota/news/default.asp?fid=2712 "Announcing the 2004 Miles Franklin Literary Award Winner"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080722163801/http://www.stateart.com.au/sota/news/default.asp?fid=2712 |date=22 July 2008 }}</ref> Perlman's third novel, ''The Street Sweeper'', was published in 2011. In an interview in 2001 he named [[Graham Greene]] as one of the writers who inspire him, describing Greene as "a master of beautifully crisp, clean and spare prose".<ref name = "MB">Byrne, Madeleine (2001), "The world is closing in: an interview with Elliot Perlman", ''Antipodes'', 15 (1): 10–12</ref>
-In an interview in 2001 he named [[Graham Greene]] as one of the writers who inspire him, describing Greene as "a master of beautifully crisp, clean and spare prose".<ref name = "MB">Perlman, Elliot (2001) "The world is closing in: an interview with Elliot Perlman by Byrne, Madeleine", ''Antipodes'', 15 (1): 10–12</ref>
 ==Themes and style==
-His work "condemns the economic rationalism that destroys the humanity of ordinary people when they are confronted with unemployment and poverty".<ref name = "AL"/> This is not surprising in a writer who admires [[Raymond Carver]] and [[Graham Greene]] because they "write with quite a strong moral centre and a strong sense of compassion".<ref name = "MB"/> However, he says, "Part of my task is to entertain readers. I don't want it to be propaganda at all. I don't think that for something to be [[political fiction]] it has to offer an alternative; I think just a social critique is enough."<ref name = "MB"/> He describes himself, in fact, as being interested in "the essence of humanity" and argued that exploring this often means touching on political issues.<ref name = "MB"/>
+His work "condemns the economic rationalism that destroys the humanity of ordinary people when they are confronted with unemployment and poverty."<ref name = "AL">[http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A$g{ Perlman, Elliot, ''austlit.edu.au'']</ref> This is not surprising in a writer who admires [[Raymond Carver]] and [[Graham Greene]] because they "write with quite a strong moral centre and a strong sense of compassion."<ref name = "MB"/> However, he says, "Part of my task is to entertain readers. I don't want it to be propaganda at all. I don't think that for something to be [[political fiction]] it has to offer an alternative; I think just a social critique is enough."<ref name = "MB"/> He describes himself, in fact, as being interested in "the essence of humanity" and argued that exploring this often means touching on political issues.<ref name = "MB"/> Perlman often uses music, and song lyrics, in his work to convey an idea or mood, or to give a sense of who a character is. However, he recognises that this is "a bit of a risk because the less familiar the reader is with the song, the smaller the pay off."<ref name = "MB"/>
-Perlman often uses music, and song lyrics, in his work to convey an idea or mood, or to give a sense of who a character is. However, he recognises that this is "a bit of a risk because the less familiar the reader is with the song, the smaller the pay off".<ref name = "MB"/>
 ==Adaptations==
-Perlman's novel ''[[Three Dollars (novel)|Three Dollars]]'' was produced as a [[Three Dollars|film]] in 2005. It was directed by [[Robert Connolly]], and starred [[David Wenham]] and [[Frances O'Connor]]. Perlman and Connolly jointly adapted the novel.
+His novel ''[[Three Dollars (novel)|Three Dollars]]'' was produced as a [[Three Dollars|film]] in 2005. It was directed by [[Robert Connolly]], and starred [[David Wenham]] and [[Frances O'Connor]]. Perlman and Connolly jointly adapted the novel.
 A [[Seven Types of Ambiguity (TV series)|six-part series]] based on ''[[Seven Types of Ambiguity (novel)|Seven Types of Ambiguity]]'' was screened on ABC Television in 2017.
 ==Awards and nominations==
+*2019: [[Children's Peace Literature Award]]: shortlisted for ''The Adventures of Catvinkle''<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-11-12|title='Missing Marvin' wins Children's Peace Literature Award|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2019/11/12/142223/missing-marvin-wins-childrens-peace-literature-award/|access-date=2020-08-10|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}</ref>
 *2012: [[Miles Franklin Award]]: longlisted for ''The Street Sweeper''
 *2005: [[Australian Film Institute]] (AFI) Awards, Best Adapted Screenplay: winner for ''Three Dollars''
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 * ''[[Three Dollars (novel)|Three Dollars]]'' (1998)
 * ''[[Seven Types of Ambiguity (novel)|Seven Types of Ambiguity]]'' (2003)
-* ''[[The Street Sweeper (novel)|The Street Sweeper]]'' (2011)
+* ''The Street Sweeper'' (2011)
+* ''Maybe the Horse Will Talk'' (2019)
 ===Short story collection===
-* ''[[The Reasons I Won't Be Coming]]'' (1999)
+* ''The Reasons I Won't Be Coming'' (1999)
+===For children===
+* ''The Adventures of Catvinkle'', illustrated by Laura Stitzel (2018)
+* ''Catvinkle and the Missing Tulips'', illustrated by Laura Stitzel (2020)
 ==External links==
-* [http://www.barristers.com.au/www/392/files/eperlman.jpg Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] at [http://www.barristers.com.au/ barristers.com.au]
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070902041554/http://www.barristers.com.au/www/392/files/eperlman.jpg Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] at [http://www.barristers.com.au/ barristers.com.au]
 * [http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/programs/reading_victoria/20novels_06-07/reading_victoria_celebrities/perlman.html Q & A with Elliot Perlman] at the [[State Library of Victoria]] website
-* [http://www.edrants.com/segundo/elliot-perlman-bss-429/ 2012 radio interview] (one hour) at [[The Bat Segundo Show]]
+* [http://www.edrants.com/segundo/elliot-perlman-bss-429/ 2012 radio interview] (one hour) at The Bat Segundo Show
 ==References==
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 [[Category:20th-century Australian lawyers]]
 [[Category:21st-century Australian lawyers]]
+[[Category:20th-century Australian male writers]]
+[[Category:21st-century Australian male writers]]

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