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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

Other Books by this Author

  • Tourism
  • The Blindman’s Hat
  • Snowdome
  • Hardly Beach Weather

From the Catalogue

All The Troubles

by Simon Adams

Wilderness Society Award

Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things