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Bernard Cohen
Born in 1963, Bernard Cohen’s stories and articles have appeared in newspapers, magazines and literary journals in Australia, New Zealand, the US and France, and he’s also produced radio work. He has published four novels for adults, and his most recent book is the children’s picture book text, Paul Needs Specs, illustrated by Geoff Kelly and published by Penguin in 2003.
Bernard won the Australian/Vogel Award in 1996 for The Blindman’s Hat, was named as one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelists in 1997, 1998 and 1999, and won a 2001 Arts Council of England Writer’s Award.
Bernard lives in Sydney, Australia.
Awards
Winner, the Australian/Vogel, 1996
Books available from Fremantle Press
- Speed Factory 2002
Other Books by this Author
- Tourism
- The Blindman’s Hat
- Snowdome
- Hardly Beach Weather
From the Catalogue
Outdoor Reading in Freo
The National Year of Reading is about turning Australia into a nation of readers. Fremantle City Library invites you the launch of the National Year of Reading 2012 at their Outdoor Reading Room.
Indulge your love of reading this Valentine’s Day with a morning tea and talks by Susanna Juliano author of Fremantle Italians and Andrew Relph, author of Not Drowning, Reading
When: 10am, 14 February 2012
Where: Outdoor Reading Room, Kings Square, Fremantle
RSVP by 7 Feb: 08 9432 9766 or frelib@fremantle.wa.gov.au

