Bernard Cohen

Bernard Cohen (born 1963) is an Australian writer, the author of four novels and a children's picture book. Cohen 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. In 2006 Cohen founded The Writing Workshop, which runs creative writing programs for children in New South Wales, and via the internet. Cohen's short stories have been widely anthologised, including in the Penguin Century of Australian Stories, Best Australian Stories 2002 and 2009 and Picador New Writing. From 1990-91 he was co-editor of the literary journal Editions Review. Novels Children's...