For ten years, Bram Press­er schlepped around the world as the singer of icon­ic Jew­ish punk band Yid­core before turn­ing to writ­ing. His debut nov­el, The Book of Dirt, was released in Aus­tralia to great acclaim and won numer­ous major lit­er­ary prizes. It was recent­ly pub­lished in the USA where it won the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award for Debut Fiction.