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Shimon Adaf | |
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| Citizenship | Israel |
| Occupations | Poetic and Author |
Shimon Adaf (Hebrew: שמעון אדף; born 1972) is an Israeli poet and author born in Sderot.[1] Shimon, born to parents of Moroccan origin, now lives in Jaffa. [2]
Education and career
[edit]Shimon Adaf's first book of poetry, Icarus' Monologue, won a prize from the Israeli Ministry of Education. In 1996–2000, Adaf studied at Tel Aviv University, simultaneously writing articles on literature, film and rock music for Israeli newspapers. In 2000–2005, he worked as a prose editor for Keter Publishing House. He is currently the chair person of the creative writing program at Ben Gurion University in Israel.
In 2013, he won Israel's prestigious Sapir Prize for his novel Mox Nox.[3]
He was interviewed on the Shaping Business Minds Through Art podcast in 2020.[4]
Awards
[edit]- 2007 - Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works
- 2010 - Yehuda Amichai Award
- 2012 - Sapir Prize
- 2017 - Newman Prize
- 2024 - Landau Prize for Poetry[5]
Books
[edit]Poetry
[edit]- Icarus' Monologue, 1997
- That Which I Thought Shadow Is the Real Body, 2002
- Aviva-No, 2009
Prose
[edit](All titles given in approximate English translation)
- One Mile and Two Days Before Sunset, 2004
- The Buried Heart, 2007
- Sunburnt Faces, 2008
- Frost, 2010
- Mox Nox, 2011
- Undercities, 2012
- The Wedding Gifts, 2014
- Detective's Complaint, 2015
- Shadrach, 2017
- Rise and Call, 2017
- I Loved Loving, 2019
Non-fiction
[edit]- Art and War, 2016 (with Lavie Tidhar)
- I am others, 2018
References
[edit]- ↑ Naama Gershy (2 July 2008). "Netivot, the heart of everything". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 21 November 2008. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
- ↑ "Shimon Adaf". The Israeli Institute for Hebrew Literature | המכון הישראלי לספרות עברית. Retrieved 2024-05-21.
- ↑ "Israel's top literary award, Sapir Prize, goes to Shimon Adaf". Haaretz. 17 February 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ↑ "#6 Shimon Adaf. Speculative Thinking. - Shaping Business Minds Through Art". The Artian Podcast. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
- ↑ ynet (2024-06-30). "קובי אוז ושמעון אדף הם בין הזוכים בפרס לנדאו 2024". Ynet (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2025-04-01.
External links
[edit]- "Shimon Adaf". The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature.
- "Shimon Adaf" (in Hebrew and German). lyrikline.org.
- "Review of Aviva-No, trans: Yael Segalovitz". publishersweekly.com. November 2019.
- "Aviva-No". Alice James Books.
- "Review of Aviva-No, trans: Yael Segalovitz". themillions.com. 6 November 2019.
- "Review of Aviva-No, trans: Yael Segalovitz". worldliteraturetoday.org. 10 December 2019.
- 1972 births
- Living people
- Tel Aviv University alumni
- Israeli male poets
- Israeli literary critics
- Hebrew-language poets
- International Writing Program alumni
- 20th-century Israeli poets
- 21st-century Israeli poets
- 20th-century Israeli male writers
- 21st-century Israeli male writers
- People from Sderot
- Israeli people of Moroccan-Jewish descent