Assaf Gavron

Assaf Gavron (2014)

Assaf Gavron (Hebrew: אסף גברון‎‎; born 21 December 1968) is an Israeli writer, novelist, translator and musician, formerly a journalist and hi-tech worker. 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 für die Stadt" (Cologne, Germany) for the same novel (2012), and the Israeli Prime Minister Award for authors (2011).

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 has been teaching creative writing in Israel (Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem, and Sapir Academic College in Sderot) and the United States (University of Nebraska Omaha and San Diego State University). Gavron has worked creating video games and as a rock musician; he has also translated American novels (Portnoy's Complaint among them) into Hebrew.[1]

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.

References

  1. ↑ Kirsch, Adam (29 October 2014). "The Great Israeli Novel Smiles at the Settlers With his newly translated novel 'The Hilltop,' Assaf Gavron stakes his claim to be Israel's Jonathan Franzen". Tablet. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  2. ↑ The Books was also listed among the Los Angeles Times book critic's 10 favorite books of 2010 (Ulin, David L. (December 19, 2010). "David Ulin's favorite books of 2010". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 4, 2014.).

External links

CrocAttack / Almost Dead:

The Hilltop:

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