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David Schütz (Hebrew: דוד שיץ, born August 5, 1941) is an Israeli fiction writer.
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Biography
David Schütz (birth name Dietmar Engbert Müllner) was born in Berlin and immigrated to Israel at the age of seven.
He has a master's degree in History from The Hebrew University, and has also studied cinema at the BFI.
His first book "The Grass and the Sand" (Hebrew: העשב והחול) was published in 1978. The book was translated into French (L'herbe et le sable : roman) and into German (Gras und Sand : roman).
Schütz has published 9 books.
Awards
Schütz has received a number literary prizes, including:
His Writing
David Schutz' experiences as a child and adolescent are central to his wiriting. His characters struggle with the aftermath of catastrophe of the Holocaust, suffering its consequences in their day-to-day existence, often from the stanpoint of a child. Schutz balances the more metaphysical elements of his writing with a solid grounding in time and place.