Sarah Krasnostein is a multi-award winning writer and critic. She is the best-selling author of The Trauma Cleaner (2017), The Believer (2021/22), Not Waving, Drowning (2022) and On Peter Carey (2023). She holds a PhD in criminal law and is admitted to legal practice in New York and Victoria.
The Believer was named by The New Yorker as a Best Book of 2022. The Trauma Cleaner has been published in various translations.
Sarah has been awarded the Victorian Prize for Literature, the Australian Book Industry Award for General Non-Fiction, the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Non-Fiction, the Dobbie Literary Award, and the Prize for Non-Fiction at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. She was a finalist for the Wellcome Book Prize (UK), the National Biography Award, the Melbourne Prize for Literature and the Walkley Book Award. In 2022, she was awarded the Walkley’s Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism.
She is a regular contributor to The Monthly and The Saturday Paper. Her work can be found in a variety of publications in Australia, America, and the UK including The Guardian, Longreads, Literary Hub, The Jewish Quarterly, and Oxford Handbooks Online as well as various academic journals. She has lectured in post-graduate criminal law and taught creative writing.
Sarah was born in America, is currently based in Australia and has lived and worked in both countries.
Events
Sarah’s upcoming appearances can be found here.
Contact
For Australian enquiries please contact Jane Novak at the Jane Novak Literary Agency
For enquiries from the UK, US & all other countries contact
Sarah Lutyens at the Lutyens & Rubinstein Literary AgencyFor Australian enquiries about The Trauma Cleaner contact
Emily Booth at Text PublishingFor US enquiries about The Trauma Cleaner contact
Daniel Kirschen at Creative Artists Agency | CAA
