Elliot Perlman

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

Life

Perlman's grandparents are Jewish immigrants from Europe. He studied until 1989 Law at Monash University in Melbourne, worked in a law firm and in 1997 received approval as a Barrister . In 1994 he won a short story writing competition and has since published a volume 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 investigates, among other things, the interviews that the American psychiatrist David P. Boder recorded in 1946 with Holocaust survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp .

Perlman lives in Melbourne.

Works (selection)

  • The street sweeper . 2011
    • Soundtracks: Roman . From the English by Grete Osterwald. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-421-04373-3 .
  • Seven Types of Ambiguity , 2003
    • Seven sides of the truth . From the English by Matthias Jendis. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2008.
  • Three dollars . 1998
    • Three dollars: novel . From the English by Henning Ahrens. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2010.

literature

  • Joachim Scholl: The last volume . Review, in: Literary World May 18, 2013, p. 6

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Perlman, Elliot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne