Sophie Brody Award
1 appearances
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Edition 7 (2012) Winner
Adina Hoffman
アディナ・ホフマン
Adina Hoffman
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1967 （Jackson, Mississippi）
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English, Hebrew
- Residence History
- Peterborough, New Hampshire → Houston, Texas → Jerusalem (since 1992) → New Haven
Career
- Occupations
- writer, film critic
- Active Years
- 1989-
- Affiliations
- Ibis Editions (founder) and editor, Yale's Council on Middle East Studies
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wesleyan University | — | — | — | — | United States |
Wesleyan University
Year of Graduation:
1989
Country:
United States
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Windham–Campbell Literature Prize | — | — | Yale University | winner |
| 2010 | Wingate Prize | My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness | — | Jewish Quarterly-Wingate | winner |
| 2011 | John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship | — | — | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | fellow |
| 2012 | Sophie Brody Medal | Sacred Trash | Outstanding Jewish Literature | American Library Association | winner (with Peter Cole) |
| 2020 | PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography | Ben Hecht | — | PEN America | finalist |
Windham–Campbell Literature Prize
2013
Organization:
Yale University
Result:
winner
Wingate Prize
2010
Work:
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness
Organization:
Jewish Quarterly-Wingate
Result:
winner
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
2011
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result:
fellow
Sophie Brody Medal
2012
Work:
Sacred Trash
Category:
Outstanding Jewish Literature
Organization:
American Library Association
Result:
winner (with Peter Cole)
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
2020
Work:
Ben Hecht
Organization:
PEN America
Result:
finalist
Awards & Nominations
The Donald Windham Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes
1 appearances
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Edition 1 (2013) Winner
Works
Major Works
House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood
2000 essaysA series of linked essays about her North African Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem.
Jerusalem lifeNeighborhood portraits
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century
2009 biographyLife and times of the Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali.
Palestinian literaturePoet's life
Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
2011 non-fictionWith Peter Cole, explores the lost and found world of the Cairo Geniza.
Jewish historyGeniza
Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City
2016 non-fictionArchitects of a new city in Jerusalem.
ArchitectureJerusalem
Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
2019 biographyBiography of screenwriter Ben Hecht.
HollywoodJewish American
Bibliography
- House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood
- My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century
- Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
- Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City
- Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- blends literary and documentary elementssteadily perceptive and brimming with informed passion
- Recurring Motifs
- lives and afterlives of people, movies, buildings, books, and certain city streets
Legacy
American writer whose work blends literary and documentary elements, focusing on lives in Palestinian century, Jerusalem, etc.
Trivia
- Married to poet and translator Peter Cole.
- Founder and editor of Ibis Editions.