Bernard Cohen (Australian author)
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Bernard Cohen is an Australian writer, the author of four novels and a children's picture book.
, and his short stories have been widely anthologised, including in the Penguin Century of Australian Stories, Best Australian Stories 2002 and 2009 and Picador New Writing.
He won the 1996 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award
, was three times Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian novelist, won a 2001 Arts Council England
Writer's Award and was University of Technology Sydney Alumnus of the Year 1997.
Cohen currently directs The Writing Workshop, which runs creative writing programs for children in Sydney, and via the internet.
Life
Cohen was sub-editor for Editions Review, editor for GangarooGangaroo
Gangaroo is the Australian imprint of Austrian publisher Gangan Verlag.- History :In 1989 Gerald Ganglbauer, a young Austrian publisher, arrived in Australia and started collecting Australian short stories, experimental prose, and poetry...
, and his short stories have been widely anthologised, including in the Penguin Century of Australian Stories, Best Australian Stories 2002 and 2009 and Picador New Writing.
He won the 1996 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award is an Australian literary award for unpublished manuscripts by writers under the age of 35. The prize money, currently A$20,000, is the richest and most prestigious award for an unpublished manuscript in Australia...
, was three times Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian novelist, won a 2001 Arts Council England
Arts Council England
Arts Council England was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was divided into three separate bodies for England, Scotland and Wales. It is a non-departmental public body of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport...
Writer's Award and was University of Technology Sydney Alumnus of the Year 1997.
Cohen currently directs The Writing Workshop, which runs creative writing programs for children in Sydney, and via the internet.