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Name
  
Assaf Gavron

Albums
  
ירושלים

Role
  
Writer

Music group
  
הפה והטלפיים

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Books
  
Hydromania, Croc Attack, Almost Dead, The Hilltop: A Novel

Awards
  
Geffen Award for Best Israeli Novel

Similar People
  
הפה והטלפיים, Ohad Fishof, Yehuda Amichai

International noir with authors salar abdoh assaf gavron and cheryl lu lien tan at miami book fair


Assaf Gavron (Hebrew: אסף גברון‎; born December 21, 1968) is an Israeli writer, novelist, translator and musician, formerly a journalist and hi-tech worker

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His books have been translated to several languages and won awards such as the Bernstein Prize for The Hilltop (2013), Prix Courrier International (France) for Croc Attack (2012), "Buch fur die Stadt" (Cologne, Germany) for the same novel (2012), and the Israeli Prime Minister Award for authors (2011).

Assaf gavron author of the hilltop


Biography

Assaf Gavron was born in the town of Arad in 1968 and grew up in Motza Illit near Jerusalem. Studied BA in Media and Communication in Goldsmiths' College in London, UK (1991–1994), and New Media in Vancouver, Canada (1997). In the 1990s he worked as a journalist for several Israeli newspapers. Between 2000–2004 he was a creative director for Israeli high-tech company Valis. He now teaches creative writing in Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem, and Sapir Academic College in Sderot. Gavron has worked creating video games and as a rock musician; he has also translated American novels (Portnoy's Complaint among them) into Hebrew.

He lives in Tel Aviv with his wife and two daughters.

Works

  • Ice (אייס): novel, Tel Aviv: Gvanim, 1997.
  • Sex in the Cemetery (מין בבית העלמין): story collection, Tel Aviv: Zmora-Bitan, 2000.
  • Moving (מובינג): novel, Or Yehuda: Zmora-Bitan Publishing, 2003. (German: Alles Paletti, Luchterhand Verlag, 2010)
  • CrocAttack (תנין פיגוע): novel, Or Yehuda: Kinneret Zmora-Bitan, 2006. (German: Ein schones Attentat, Luchterhand Verlag, 2008; Dutch: Krokodil van de aanslagen, Ailantus, 2009; Italian: La mia storia, la tua storia, Mondadori, 2009; French: Croc Attack, Rivages, 2010; English (UK): CrocAttack, 4th Estate, 2010; English (US): Almost Dead, HarperCollins, 2010; English (Canada): Almost Dead, Harper Canada, 2010; Greek: Croc Attack, Bartzolulianos, 2013; Bulgarian: Almost Dead, Enthusiast, 2014)
  • Hydromania (הידרומניה): novel, Or Yehuda: Kinneret Zmora-Bitan, 2008. (German: Hydromania, Luchterhand Verlag, 2009; Dutch: Hydromania, Ailantus, 2010; Italian: Idromania, La Giuntina, 2013)
  • Eating Standing Up (אוכל בעמידה): collection of journalism, Jerusalem: Uganda, 2009.
  • The Hilltop (הגבעה): novel, Tel Aviv: Books in the Attic (Sifrey Aliyat Hagag), 2013. (German: Auf fremdem Land, Luchterhand Verlag, 2013; Sold to publishers in the Netherlands, France, Italy, US, UK and Sweden)

    • Awards and accolades

  • The Hilltop won the Israeli Bernstein Prize (2013) and was long listed for the Sapir Prize (2014).
  • CrocAttack won the Courrier International Prix in France (2013) and the "Buch fur die Stadt" prize in Cologne, Germany (2012). It was short listed for the Adei-Wizo Prize in Italy (2010) and long listed for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in the US (2011).
  • Hydromania won the Wizo Prize in the Netherlands (2012) and the Geffen Award in Israel (2009).
  • 2010: DAAD artists-in-Berlin fellowship.
  • 2011: Israeli Prime Minister Award for Authors

    • Other activities

    Apart from his original works, Gavron is a literary translator from English to Hebrew. Among the more than twenty books he translated are J.D. Salinger's Nine Stories, Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint, Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated, J. K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy and Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife.

    Gavron is the singer and songwriter with Israeli cult pop band The Mouth and Foot (הפה והטלפיים), that has released five albums between 1989 and 2013. He is the Founder and Captain of the Israeli Writers Football national team. He was the chief writer of video game Peacemaker.

    References

    Assaf Gavron Wikipedia
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