Sarah Krasnostein

Sarah Krasnostein is a multi-award winning writer and critic. She is the best-selling author of The Trauma Cleaner, The Believer, the Quarterly Essay, Not Waving, Drowning, and On Peter Carey. The Trauma Cleaner is available in various translations. The Believer was named by The New Yorker as a Best Book of 2022. She has won Walkley Awards for long form feature writing and arts criticism, and 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 Prize for Non-Fiction at the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards and the Dobbie Literary Award. She was a finalist for the Wellcome Book Prize (UK), the National Biography Award, the Melbourne Prize for Literature, the Walkley Book Award and the Nib Literary Award. She holds a doctorate in criminal law and is admitted to legal practice in New York and Victoria.

Books by Sarah Krasnostein

The Mushroom Tapes

Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper, Sarah Krasnostein

From three award-winning authors - the book that will outlast the news cycle.

‘Categorically a must-read, diary-clearing kind of book…I couldn’t stop reading.’ READINGS
‘so readable, so moreish, I got through it in one day.’ THE SHAMELESS BOOK CLUB

The Trauma Cleaner

Sarah Krasnostein

A poignant and powerful celebration of one remarkable woman’s unrelenting drive to make order from chaos.

The Believer

Sarah Krasnostein

The second book by the bestselling, award-winning author of The Trauma Cleaner is now available in a smaller format. With her trademark compassion, observational rigour and unique humanity, Sarah Krasnostein takes us into the lives of people who believe in something extraordinary, despite the odds