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Thursday, 28 April 2022 - 00:05

Adi Arbel (2021)
Documentary, 54 min, Israel
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“What I search for in my writing are the moments that I’m able to touch both life and death”, says Grossman, whose novels have touched many hearts. Grossman, reveals a close and intimate side of himself and shares personal stories alongside great novels.

BIOGRAPHY

David Grossman born January 25, 1954 in Jerusalem is an Israeli author known for Mishehu Larutz Ito (2006), Hiuch HaGdi (1986) and La grammaire intérieure (2010). His books have been translated into more than 30 languages. In 2018, he was awarded the Israel Prize for literature.

AWARDS and HONORS

• 1984: Prime Minister’s Prize for Creative Work
• 1985: Bernstein Prize (original Hebrew novel category)
• 1991: Nelly Sachs Prize
• 1993: Bernstein Prize (original Hebrew novel category)
• 2001: Sapir Prize for Someone to Run With
• 2004: JQ Wingate Prize (fiction) for Someone to Run With
• 2004: Italian prize Premio Flaiano
• 2004: Bialik Prize for literature (with Haya Shenhav and Ephraim Sidon)
• 2007: Emet Prize
• 2007: Ischia International Journalism Award
• 2007: honorary Doctor Honoris Causa by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
• 2008: Geschwister-Scholl-Preis
• 2010: Albatros Literaturpreis for To the End of the Land, with German translator Anne Birch Hauer
• 2010: Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
• 2010: National Jewish Book Award for To the End of the Land
• 2011: JQ Wingate Prize for To the End of the Land
• 2015: St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates
• 2017: Man Booker International Prize for A Horse Walks into a Bar (with translator Jessica Cohen)
• 2018: Israel Prize
• 2021: Elected a Royal Society of Literature International Writer

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Fiction

• – Duel (1982)
• – The Smile of the Lamb (1983)
• – See Under: Love (1986)
• – The Book of Intimate Grammar (1991)
• – The Zigzag Kid (1994)
• – Be My Knife (1998)
• – Someone to Run With (2000)
• – Her Body Knows: two novellas (2003)
• – To the End of the Land (2008)
• – Falling Out of Time (2014)
• – A Horse Walks Into a Bar (2017)
• – Life Plays With Me (2019)

Non-fiction

• – The Yellow Wind (1987)
• – Sleeping on a Wire: Conversations with Palestinians in Israel (1992)
• – Death as a Way of Life: Israel Ten Years after Oslo (2003)
• – Lion’s honey: the myth of Samson (2005)
• – Writing in the Dark: Essays on Literature and Politics (2008)

PRESS REVIEW

Meet the woman who documented Israel’s most prominent contemporary author
The Jerusalem Post 2021

INTERVIEW