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About the Author
Etgar Keret was born in Tel Aviv in 1967. He is the author of five collections of short stories, three children's books, and three graphic novels. His writing has been published in the New Yorker, Zoetrope, and the Paris Review. His books have been translated into thirty-four languages and published in over thirty-eight countries. In 2007, Keret and Shira Geffen won the Cannes Film Festival's Caméra d'Or Award for their movie Jellyfish. In 2010, Keret received the Chevalier Medallion of France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He is the coeditor of Tel Aviv Noir.
Assaf Gavron is an Israeli writer and translator. He is the author of five novels and a short story collection. His fiction has been translated to many languages and adapted to the stage and cinema. He is the winner of several awards including the Israeli Prime Minister's Creative Award for Authors, Buch für die Stadt in Germany, and Prix Courrier International in France. Gavron is responsible for the highly regarded English-to-Hebrew translations of J.D. Salinger's Nine Stories, Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint, and Jonathan Safran Foer's novels. He is the coeditor of Tel Aviv Noir.
Assaf Gavron is an Israeli writer and translator. He is the author of five novels and a short story collection. His fiction has been translated to many languages and adapted to the stage and cinema. He is the winner of several awards including the Israeli Prime Minister's Creative Award for Authors, Buch für die Stadt in Germany, and Prix Courrier International in France. Gavron is responsible for the highly regarded English-to-Hebrew translations of J.D. Salinger's Nine Stories, Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint, and Jonathan Safran Foer's novels. He is the coeditor of Tel Aviv Noir.
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Assaf Gavron was Born in 1968, and published five novels (Ice, Moving, Almost Dead, Hydromania and The Hilltop), a collection of short stories (Sex in the cemetery), and a non-fiction collection of Jerusalem falafel-joint reviews (Eating Standing Up).
His fiction has been translated into German, Russian, Italian, French, English, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Bulgarian. His latest novel is The Hilltop (Scribner, 2014).
Among the awards he won are the Israeli Prime Minister's Creative Award for Authors, the Israeli Bernstein Prize for The Hilltop, the DAAD artists-in-Berlin fellowship in Germany, the Buch Fur Die Stadt award in Germany for Almost Dead and the Prix Courrier International award in France for the same novel.
His fiction was adapted for the stage in Habima - Israel's national theatre, and four of his novels are under option to be adapted to film and TV.
As a translator of fiction, Gavron is responsible for the highly-regarded English-to-Hebrew translations of J.D. Salinger's Nine Stories, Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint and Jonathan Safran Foer's novels, among others. He also co-translated his own novel Almost Dead from Hebrew to English.
His fiction has been translated into German, Russian, Italian, French, English, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Bulgarian. His latest novel is The Hilltop (Scribner, 2014).
Among the awards he won are the Israeli Prime Minister's Creative Award for Authors, the Israeli Bernstein Prize for The Hilltop, the DAAD artists-in-Berlin fellowship in Germany, the Buch Fur Die Stadt award in Germany for Almost Dead and the Prix Courrier International award in France for the same novel.
His fiction was adapted for the stage in Habima - Israel's national theatre, and four of his novels are under option to be adapted to film and TV.
As a translator of fiction, Gavron is responsible for the highly-regarded English-to-Hebrew translations of J.D. Salinger's Nine Stories, Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint and Jonathan Safran Foer's novels, among others. He also co-translated his own novel Almost Dead from Hebrew to English.
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Akashic Books has published dozens of anthologies of original noir short stories set in cities from Brooklyn to Tehran to Manila and Belfast. Now it has arrived in Tel Aviv. The collection of 14 stories is a delightfully dark, queasy, heart palpitating collection.
The stories are set around Tel Aviv: Florentin, Dizengoff, Rabin Square, the lobby of a swank hotel on Rehov Hayarkon. The stories fall into three sections: “Encounters,” “Estrangements” and “Corpses.” As Keret observes in the book's introduction, the concept of noir in Tel Aviv may not be immediately understandable to readers, because T-A is one of the happiest, friendliest, most liberal cities in the world.
He writes, "...What could possibly be dark about our sunny city, a city nicknamed ‘The Bubble’ due to its sense of complete separation from the violent, conflicted country in which it is situated?” But then Keret concedes a point: “Don’t get me wrong — Tel Aviv is a lovely, safe city. Most of the time, for most of its inhabitants. But the stories in this collection describe what happens the rest of the time, to the rest of its inhabitants.”
They reveal, in Keret’s words, “the concealed, scarred face of this city that we love so much.” (By the way: co-editor Gavron has another book, a novel, out also in October 2014, “The Hilltop” set in a West Bank settlement; that novel won the 2013 Bernstein Prize in Israel.)
In one of my favorite stories, an attorney runs a legal newspaper that is supported by the revenue from ads from women who advertise their massage and other personal services. He isn't a pimp per se, but he does take payment in forms other than money.Read more ›
The stories are set around Tel Aviv: Florentin, Dizengoff, Rabin Square, the lobby of a swank hotel on Rehov Hayarkon. The stories fall into three sections: “Encounters,” “Estrangements” and “Corpses.” As Keret observes in the book's introduction, the concept of noir in Tel Aviv may not be immediately understandable to readers, because T-A is one of the happiest, friendliest, most liberal cities in the world.
He writes, "...What could possibly be dark about our sunny city, a city nicknamed ‘The Bubble’ due to its sense of complete separation from the violent, conflicted country in which it is situated?” But then Keret concedes a point: “Don’t get me wrong — Tel Aviv is a lovely, safe city. Most of the time, for most of its inhabitants. But the stories in this collection describe what happens the rest of the time, to the rest of its inhabitants.”
They reveal, in Keret’s words, “the concealed, scarred face of this city that we love so much.” (By the way: co-editor Gavron has another book, a novel, out also in October 2014, “The Hilltop” set in a West Bank settlement; that novel won the 2013 Bernstein Prize in Israel.)
In one of my favorite stories, an attorney runs a legal newspaper that is supported by the revenue from ads from women who advertise their massage and other personal services. He isn't a pimp per se, but he does take payment in forms other than money.Read more ›
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