Bram Presser

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Bram Presser
Born1976
OccupationWriter and musician
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
Years active2011-
Notable awards2018 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction

Bram Presser (born 1976) [1] is a Melbourne writer and musician, known for his involvement in the Melbourne music scene and Jewish community.

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He fronted the Jewish punk rock prankster band Yidcore and was the singing voice for Mick Molloy in the 2006 Australian comedy film BoyTown . Following the breakup of Yidcore in December 2009, Presser turned to writing. He is a monthly columnist for The Australian Jewish News and is the author of the literary blog Bait For Bookworms. [2]

His first short story, The Prisoner of Babel, was published in Volume 7 of The Sleepers Almanac and another story, Crumbs, won The Age Short Story Award for 2011. [3] In an interview with The Age, Presser said the story was part of a novel he had been working on for several years.

In 2000, Presser was a Bachelor of Laws Prize recipient, being awarded the Butterworths Prize (Advanced Legal Research). [4]

In 2007, Presser was painted by acclaimed Sydney artist and cardiologist Dennis Kuchar for the Archibald Prize. [5]

In 2015 he appeared at the Melbourne Jewish Comedy Festival in the show "What’s So Funny? A Literary L’chaim" [6]

On 28 August 2017 Presser released his first book, titled The Book of Dirt, a novel about love, family secrets and Jewish myths. [7]

The Book of Dirt won three prizes 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. [8] It also won the 2018 Voss Literary Prize. [9] The Book of Dirt was published in the USA in 2018, where it won the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction. [10]

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  1. ↑ "Austlit — Bram Presser". Austlit. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
  2. ↑ "Bait For Bookworms". baitforbookworms.blogspot.com. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  3. ↑ Steger, Jason (6 January 2012). "High-wire view of horrors to come". The Age. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  4. ↑ link Source Archived 25 May 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ the Australian Jewish News Archived 20 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ Melbourne Jewish Comedy Festival {{ |url=https://www.jewishnews.net.au/festival-of-jewish-humour/50055/ |date=20 July 2015 }}
  7. ↑ Bram Presser The Book Of Dirt Archived 14 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine {{ |url=http://mwf.com.au/writer/bram-presser/ |date=20 July 2017 }}
  8. ↑ Morris, Linda (30 April 2018). "Stories of ancestral memory storm NSW Premier's Literary Awards". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  9. ↑ "Presser wins 2018 Voss Literary Prize for 'The Book of Dirt'". 7 December 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  10. ↑ "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Archived from the original on 8 March 2020. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
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