David Cohen David Cohen i(A99344 works by)
Born: Established: Perth, Western Australia, ;
Gender: Male
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David Cohen was born in Perth, Western Australia. He later moved to Melbourne and then Brisbane. Cohen has written short stories and novels; his fiction has appeared in a range of journals including Meanjin, Wet Ink and Australian Book Review online.

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon The Terrible Event : Stories Yarraville : Transit Lounge , 2023 26020023 2023 selected work short story

'From the winner of the Russell Prize for Humour Writing. David Cohen's most wryly humorous and disturbing work of fiction yet.

'A public memorial’s name is changed to avoid any mention of the tragedy it has been set up to commemorate. Two attention-seeking activists campaign against exclusionary policies adopted by the gift shop at a suburban shopping mall. A customer service representative becomes obsessed with a colleague who has worked from home for so long, nobody in the company remembers her. A middle-aged father loses his marriage and falls in love again with a cherished but damaged childhood toy. An academic’s research into roadside memorials takes a peculiar turn.

'David Cohen’s sometimes bizarre yet pitch-perfect stories capture everyday horrors but are always shot through with a profound empathy and generosity.

'The Terrible Event delivers not just one terrible event, but many events of varying degrees of terrible-ness. Death, destruction, disappearance, decline, defeat – it has something for everyone.'

2024 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award
2024 shortlisted APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Literary Fiction / Poetry Cover designed by Design by Committee.
y separately published work icon The Hunter and Other Stories of Men Yarraville : Transit Lounge , 2018 13862043 2018 selected work short story

'A property developer fears that a burgeoning ibis population will prevent the construction of a high rise apartment complex; a bus stop outside a dementia care facility in Düsseldorf suffers its own identity crisis; a young man’s new job requires him to pose as a woodcutter and wave at a trainload of tourists; an aging, reclusive archivist becomes locked in a strange battle of wills with a courier; a backpacker in Israel has a bizarre religious experience.

'In these award-winning stories, David Cohen explores the oddities of human behaviour with wit, affection and startling brilliance.'  (Publication summary)

2019 winner Russell Prize for Humour Writing
2015 shortlisted Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript
Lament of a Bus Stop Outside the Benrath Senior Centre 2017 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 226 2017;
2017 runner-up Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize
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