Bram Presser
Author of The Book of Dirt
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Bram Presser is an Australian author, born in Melbourne in 1976. His stories include Crumbs: A Story, Bait for Bookworms, The Prisoner of Babel, Esther: Outside the Box, and The Brief, Sad Tale of Yitziik Berenhauer. They have appeared in Best Australian Stories, Award Winning Australian Writing, show more The Sleepers Almanac and Higher Arc. His recent novel, The Book of Dirt (2017) won multiple 2018 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, the People's Choice Award, the 2018 Voss Literary Prize, and the 2018 National Jewish Book Award Goldberg Prize for Debut Fiction. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Growing up, Presser’s grandparents never talked about their Holocaust experiences. After they died, Presser read a newspaper article claiming that his grandfather had been selected by the Nazis to be the literary curator of Hitler’s Museum of the Extinct Race, which inspired him to learn more and eventually lead to this book.
The Book of Dirt is historical fiction set in the context of the Holocaust, but it should appeal to any reader interested in memory, identity, and family storytelling. It is a novel about how we know the people we love, and how we recreate their lives in memory.… (more)