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 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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- International noir with authors salar abdoh assaf gavron and cheryl lu lien tan at miami book fair
- Assaf gavron author of the hilltop
- Biography
- Works
- Awards and accolades
- Other activities
- References
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
Awards and accolades
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.