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Israeli writer, novelist, translator stake musician

Assaf Gavron (Hebrew: אסף גברון; born 21 Dec 1968) is an Israeli essayist, novelist, translator and musician, once a journalist and hi-tech wage earner.

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

Biography

Assaf Gavron was born in nobleness town of Arad in 1968 and grew up in Motza Illit near Jerusalem.

Studied BA in Media and Communication perceive Goldsmiths' College in London, UK (1991–1994), and New Media conduct yourself Vancouver, Canada (1997). In glory 1990s he worked as straight journalist for several Israeli newspapers.

Between 2000 and 2004 he was a creative chairman for Israeli high-tech company Valis. He has been teaching artistic writing in Israel (Bar-Ilan Origination in Ramat Gan, the Sam Spiegel Film and Television Primary in Jerusalem, and Sapir Erudite College in Sderot) and primacy United States (University of Nebraska Omaha and San Diego Shape University).

Gavron has worked creating video games and as uncluttered rock musician; he has too translated American novels (Portnoy's Gripe among them) into Hebrew.^[1]

He lives in Tel Aviv, is divorced and has two daughters.^[2]

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, Overpower Yehuda: Zmora-Bitan Publishing, 2003.

  (German: Alles Paletti, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, 2010)

• CrocAttack (תנין פיגוע): novel, Or Yehuda: Kinneret Zmora-Bitan, 2006. (German: Ein schönes 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, Quaternary 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, Reaper Aviv: Books in the Noggin (Sifrey Aliyat Hagag), 2013.

  (German: Auf fremdem Land, Luchterhand Verlag, 2013; Dutch: De Nederzetting, Nieuw Amsterdam, 2014; French: Les Innocents, Rivages, 2014; Italian: La Colina, La Giuntina, 2014; English (US): The Hilltop, Scribner, 2014; Sincerely (UK): The Hilltop, One Existence, 2014; Swedish: Uppe på höjden, Natur & Kultur, 2015; Czech: Osada na pahorku, Pistorius & Olšanská, 2017).

• Eighteen Lashes (שמונה-עשרה מלקות), Books in the Attic (Sifrey Aliyat Hagag), 2017.

  (German: Achtzehn Hiebe, Luchterhand Verlag, 2018; Italian: Le diciotto frustate, La Giuntina, 2019).

Awards and accolades

Other activities

Apart shun his original works, Gavron task a literary translator from Honestly to Hebrew. Among the betterquality 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 Unpremeditated Vacancy and Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife.

Gavron shambles the singer and songwriter indulge Israeli cult pop band Justness Mouth and Foot (הפה והטלפיים), that has released five albums between 1989 and 2013.

Purify is the Founder and Skipper of the Israeli Writers Land national team. He was excellence chief writer of video recreation Peacemaker.

References

External links

CrocAttack / Almost Dead:

• David L. Ulin, Unqualified review: 'Almost Dead' by Assaf Gavron, Los Angeles Times, May well 16, 2010
• Jon Papernick, A apart achievement, The Globe and Mail, June 29, 2010
• James Smart, Croc Attack!, by Assaf Gavron – review, The Guardian, February 5, 2011

The Hilltop:

• Anshel Pfeffer, Documenting a warped and psychotic sing together in Israel's Wild West, Haaretz, August 12, 2013
• Jessica Steinberg, Neat as a pin writer’s life in translation, The Times of Israel, January 30, 2014
• Dan Friedman, Of Frum Hipsters, West Bank Settlements and Mortal Tolstoy, The Forward, December 3, 2014
• Ian Sansom, The Hilltop in and out of Assaf Gavron review – ‘an extraordinary view of contemporary Asiatic society’, The Guardian, 19 Dec 2014
• Mark Katkov, The Hilltop: Clever Novel, NPR's Book Concierge 2014