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Born in 1963, Bernard Cohen is the author of Hardly Beach Weather (HarperCollins Flamingo 2002), Snowdome (Allen and Unwin 1998), The Blindman's Hat (Allen & Unwin 1997) and Tourism (Picador 1992). Since 1985, his 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. 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. In 2002, Bernard was writer-in-residence at Sir John Soane's Museum (London), where he established the Fictional Soane website. A previous residency was at Peckham Library in south London, where he worked predominantly with young Afro-Caribbean Britons. Other residencies have included University College Worcester, Nottingham Trent University and the Taipei City International Writers' Residency Program. In 2006, he was writer in residence at Booranga Writers' Centre, Wagga Wagga and is blogger-in-residence at Wagga Wagga's UNSOUND festival. Other writing projects include Speedfactory, a collaborative book with John Kinsella, McKenzie Wark and Terri-ann White, published by Fremantle Arts Centre Press in August 2002 and the 2000 CD ROM Foreign Logics (with David Bickerstaff) which, among several exhibitions, was featured multimedia at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London in late 2001. In 2006 Bernard founded The Writing Workshop, which offers creative writing programs to children and schools. Bernard lives in Sydney, Australia. |
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