Matt Rubinstein Matt Rubinstein i(A23040 works by) (a.k.a. Matthew Ben Rubinstein)
Born: Established: 1974 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Matt Rubinstein moved to Adelaide when he was eight, living there for fifteen years before returning to Sydney. He practised law for five years, then began writing full-time.

As well as his novels and other work listed here, he has written and co-written short films. Mona Lisa (2004) was co-written with Director Sotiris Dounoukos and has shown internationally. Paper and Sand (2006), co-written with Ian Kennedy Williams, was a finalist in two categories for the 2006 Dendy Awards, and was nominated for best Screenplay in a Short Film in the 2006 AFI awards. He has also written another film, Punch (2007).

Rubinstein is the son of writer Gillian Rubinstein (q.v.).

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

form y separately published work icon Joe Cinque's Consolation : A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law ( dir. Sotiris Dounoukos ) Australia : Fandango Australia , 2016 Z1863568 2016 single work film/TV

'In early 1997, Anu Singh, a beautiful law student at the Australian National University, began to tell people she planned to kill herself. With doctors unable to help, Anu’s engineer boyfriend, Joe Cinque, attempts to get to the bottom of her condition. But as Anu’s mental and emotional state disintegrates, her plans grow more macabre and more public as she convinces fellow student Madhavi to help her. With Joe beginning to understand the true nature of their relationship, Anu starts talking of killing him as revenge for having made her ill. After an elaborate farewell dinner party attended by friends, Anu attempts to kill Joe but fails. She tries again and this time she succeeds, injecting Joe with a lethal dose of heroin. Nobody tried to stop her. ' (Production summary)
2016 winner Canberra Critics Circle Awards — Film
Body and Soul : Copyright Law and Enforcement in the Age of the Electronic Book 2012 2012 single work essay
— Appears in: Hermano Cerdo 2006-;
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 344 2012; (p. 33-34, 36-38, 40-41)
2012 winner The Calibre Prize
y separately published work icon A Little Rain on Thursday 2001 Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2007 Z1381123 2001 single work novel thriller Jack lives in a world of words. When he finds a fragile manuscript in the crypt of an old Sydney church, he is immediately fascinated. The language is like nothing he has ever seen. But are the manuscript's deepening secret's to be trusted? - from back cover
2001 runner-up The Australian / Vogel National Literary Award (for an unpublished manuscript) Awarded for an earlier version of A Little Rain on Thursday, under the title 'Vellum'.
2008 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — International Success Award
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