Bram Presser

Bram Presser was born in Melbourne in 1976. His stories have appeared in Best Australian Stories, Award Winning Australian Writing, The Sleepers Almanac and Higher Arc. His 2017 debut novel, The Book of Dirt, won the 2018 Goldberg Prize for Debut Fiction in the US National Jewish Book Awards, the 2018 Voss Literary Prize and three awards in the 2018 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards: the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing and The People’s Choice Award.

Works By Bram Presser

Tales Wrenched from the Fire
Cafe Scheherazade comes from the great Jewish storytelling tradition, where people talk over one another with unbridled exuberance to build a somewhat shambolic, but stunning and expansive, narrative edifice. And, in watching the great cacophony o...
1 Mar. 2020

Works Featuring Bram Presser

What Fills the Silence: The Book of Dirt by Bram Presser
Presser draws draw strands together—historical, cultural, geographical, familial—to create something living, to prevent past atrocities from crystallising and slipping into memory as isolated events that don’t continue to effect the present. The B...
30 Apr. 2018

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Bram Presser

Works By Bram Presser

Tales Wrenched from the Fire

Works Featuring Bram Presser

What Fills the Silence: The Book of Dirt by Bram Presser