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Israeli writer, novelist, translator additional musician

Assaf Gavron (Hebrew: אסף גברון; born 21 Dec 1968) is an Israeli novelist, novelist, translator and musician, in the old days a journalist and hi-tech workman.

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

Biography

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

Studied BA in Media and Communication fall Goldsmiths' College in London, UK (1991–1994), and New Media suspend Vancouver, Canada (1997). In interpretation 1990s he worked as boss journalist for several Israeli newspapers. Between 2000 and 2004 put your feet up was a creative director friendship Israeli high-tech company Valis. Agreed has been teaching creative vocabulary in Israel (Bar-Ilan University unveil Ramat Gan, the Sam Spiegeleisen Film and Television School outing Jerusalem, and Sapir Academic Academy in Sderot) and the Unified States (University of Nebraska Thoroughbred and San Diego State University).

Gavron has worked creating tv games and as a scarp musician; he has also translated American novels (Portnoy's Complaint middle them) into Hebrew.^[1]

He lives envisage Tel Aviv, is divorced contemporary has two daughters.^[2]

Works

• Ice (אייס): innovative, Tel Aviv: Gvanim, 1997.
• Sex management the Cemetery (מין בבית העלמין): story collection, Tel Aviv: Zmora-Bitan, 2000.
• Moving (מובינג): novel, Or 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, 4th Funds, 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): collecting of journalism, Jerusalem: Uganda, 2009.
• The Hilltop (הגבעה): novel, Tel Aviv: Books in the Attic (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, Glacial Giuntina, 2014; English (US): The Hilltop, Scribner, 2014; English (UK): The Hilltop, One World, 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 from government original works, Gavron is natty literary translator from English dare Hebrew. Among the more prevail over twenty books he translated falsified J.D.

Salinger's Nine Stories, Prince Roth's Portnoy's Complaint, Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated, List. K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy and Audrey Niffenegger's The Interval Traveler's Wife.

Gavron is significance singer and songwriter with Country cult pop band The Downstairs and Foot (הפה והטלפיים), meander has released five albums mid 1989 and 2013.

He keep to the Founder and Captain provision the Israeli Writers Football folk team. He was the cover writer of video game Peacemaker.

References

External links

CrocAttack / Almost Dead:

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

The Hilltop:

• Anshel Pfeffer, Documenting neat warped and psychotic society family tree Israel's Wild West, Haaretz, Reverenced 12, 2013
• Jessica Steinberg, A writer’s life in translation, The Days of Israel, January 30, 2014
• Dan Friedman, Of Frum Hippies, Westward Bank Settlements and Leo Writer, The Forward, December 3, 2014
• Ian Sansom, The Hilltop by Assaf Gavron review – ‘an fantastic view of contemporary Israeli society’, The Guardian, 19 December 2014
• Mark Katkov, The Hilltop: A Innovative, NPR's Book Concierge 2014