Three Dollars

Elliot Perlman (born 1964) is an Australian author and barrister best known for his novels Three Dollars (1998), Seven Types of Ambiguity (2003), The Street Sweeper (2011), and Maybe the Horse Will Talk (2019), along with the short story collection The Reasons I Won't Be Coming (1999). His debut novel Three Dollars won The Age Book of the Year Award, the Betty Trask Award, and other honors, while The Street Sweeper took the Indie Book Awards Book of the Year for Fiction; he has been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award twice and co-wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Three Dollars, which won AFI and Film Critics Circle awards.