Bialik Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 47 (1979) Winner
Aharon Appelfeld
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Aharon Appelfeld
Aliases:
Ervin Appelfeld
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1932-02-16 （Jadova (now Stara Zhadova, Ukraine)）
- Died
- 2018-01-04 （Petah Tikva） age 85
- Nationality
- Israeli
- Languages
- Hebrew, German, Yiddish, Ukrainian, Romanian, Russian, English, Italian
- Religion
- Judaism
- Residence History
- Jadova, Romania (now Ukraine) → Transnistria forced labor camp → Italy, displaced persons camp → Palestine (immigrated 1946) → Israel, Mevaseret Zion
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist
- Active Years
- 1960-2018
- Affiliations
- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
- Memberships
- Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Influenced By
- Philip Roth
- Influenced
- Holocaust literature writers
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hebrew University of Jerusalem | — | Literature | — | — | Israel |
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Literature
Country:
Israel
Studied literature
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Brenner Prize | — | 文学 | Israeli literary award | 受賞 |
| 1979 | Bialik Prize | — | 文学 | Tel Aviv Municipality | 受賞 |
| 1983 | Israel Prize | — | 文学 | State of Israel | 受賞 |
| 1989 | National Jewish Book Award | Badenheim 1939 | フィクション | Jewish Book Council | 受賞 |
| 1989 | National Jewish Book Award | The Immortal Bartfuss | フィクション | Jewish Book Council | 受賞 |
| 1997 | Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences | — | — | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | 選出 |
| 1998 | National Jewish Book Award | The Iron Tracks | フィクション | Jewish Book Council | 受賞 |
| 2004 | Prix Médicis (foreign) | The Story of a Life: A Memoir | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2011 | National Jewish Book Award | Until the Dawn’s Light | フィクション | Jewish Book Council | 受賞 |
| 2012 | Independent Foreign Fiction Prize | Blooms of Darkness | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2016 | Sydney Taylor Book Award | Adam and Thomas | — | — | 受賞 |
Brenner Prize
1975
Category:
文学
Organization:
Israeli literary award
Result:
受賞
Bialik Prize
1979
Category:
文学
Organization:
Tel Aviv Municipality
Result:
受賞
Israel Prize
1983
Category:
文学
Organization:
State of Israel
Result:
受賞
National Jewish Book Award
1989
Work:
Badenheim 1939
Category:
フィクション
Organization:
Jewish Book Council
Result:
受賞
National Jewish Book Award
1989
Work:
The Immortal Bartfuss
Category:
フィクション
Organization:
Jewish Book Council
Result:
受賞
Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1997
Organization:
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Result:
選出
National Jewish Book Award
1998
Work:
The Iron Tracks
Category:
フィクション
Organization:
Jewish Book Council
Result:
受賞
Prix Médicis (foreign)
2004
Work:
The Story of a Life: A Memoir
Result:
受賞
National Jewish Book Award
2011
Work:
Until the Dawn’s Light
Category:
フィクション
Organization:
Jewish Book Council
Result:
受賞
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
2012
Work:
Blooms of Darkness
Result:
受賞
Sydney Taylor Book Award
2016
Work:
Adam and Thomas
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Prix Médicis
1 appearances
Nelly Sachs Prize
1 appearances
-
Edition 23 (2005) Winner
Mildred L. Batchelder Award
1 appearances
-
Edition 48 (2016) Nominee
Works
Major Works
Badenheim 1939
1978 NovelDepicts the fate of Jews in Badenheim in 1939.
HolocaustExileDenial
Adaptations
- [Stage] / Arnold Wesker (2007)
Translations
- English translation 1980
Bibliography
- Badenheim 1939 (1978)
- The Age of Wonders (1978)
- Tzili (1982)
- The Retreat (1984)
- To the Land of the Cattails (1986)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Concise and preciseModernisticMetaphoric
- Recurring Motifs
- SilenceMutenessStutteringDisabilitySearch for mother figure
Legacy
Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor renowned for depicting Jewish suffering in Hebrew.
In Popular Culture
- Appears as a character in Philip Roth's Operation Shylock.
Quotes
-
I’m lucky that I’m writing in Hebrew. Hebrew is a very precise language...
Source: Boston Review
Trivia
- Holocaust survivor
- Lost mother at age 9, reunited with father after 20 years
- Learned Hebrew as a teenager