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Rafi Zabor

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Role
  
Journalist

Name
  
Rafi Zabor

Nationality
  
United States


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Born
  
Joel Zaborovsky August 22, 1946 (age 77) (
1946-08-22
)

Notable awards
  
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 1998 The Bear Comes Home

Books
  
The Bear Comes Home, I, Wabenzi, Un ours a Manhattan, Der Bar kommt heim.

Awards
  
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Occupation
  
novelist, music critic

Notable works
  
The Bear Comes Home

Rafi Zabor (born Joel Zaborovsky, August 22, 1946) is a Brooklyn, New York–based music journalist- and musician-turned-novelist.

Life and work

A graduate of Brooklyn College, Zabor became a jazz critic for Musician in 1977, and later became an editor for the magazine.

He received the 1998 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his first novel, The Bear Comes Home, which follows an alto saxophonist – who happens to be a bear – in his pursuit of musical perfection.

Zabor's second book, the memoir I, Wabenzi, was commercially unsuccessful and met with mixed critical response.

In 2008, Zabor received an NEA Literature Fellowship.

As of 2011, he was reportedly working on a new novel, to be titled The Bosphorus Dogs.

Zabor is also a jazz drummer.

References

Rafi Zabor Wikipedia