Shimon Adaf

Israeli poet and author born in Sderot

Shimon Adaf (Hebrew: שמעון אדף, born 1972) is an Israeli poet and author born in Sderot.^[1]

Biography

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 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.^[2]

He was interviewed on the Shaping Business Minds Through Art podcast in 2020.^[3]

Awards

2007 - Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works
2010 - Yehuda Amichai Award
2012 - Sapir Prize
2017 - Newman Prize

Books

Poetry

Icarus' Monologue, 1997
That Which I Thought Shadow Is the Real Body, 2002
Aviva-No, 2009

Prose

(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

Art and War, 2016 (with Lavie Tidhar)
I am others, 2018

References

^ Naama Gershy (2 July 2008). "Netivot, the heart of everything". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 21 November 2008. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
^ "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.

External links

"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.