Bernard Cohen (Australian author)

Bernard Cohen (born 1963) is an Australian writer, the author of five novels, a book of short stories and a children's picture book.

The Blindman's Hat won the Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 1996.

Cohen's fifth novel, The Antibiography of Robert F Menzies, won the inaugural Russell Prize for Humour Writing.

His first collection of short stories, When I Saw the Animal (UQP), was published in 2018.

From 1990 to 1991 he was co-editor of the literary journal Editions Review.

Bernard Cohen in Kings Cross, New South Wales , 1990