Thursday, September 17, 2015. Shimon Adaf, Center for Jewish Studies Visiting Professor and 2012 winner of Sapir Literary Prize: Adventures in the Unreal: On Judaism, Identity and Writing.
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Adaf has published three collections of poetry and seven novels, for which he won the Ministry of Education Award for Debut book (1996) and the Prime Minister`s Prize (2007). His third collection of poetry Aviva-No won the Yehuda Amichai Poetry Award in 2010, and his novel Mox Nox won the Sapir Prize (the Israeli equivalent of the Booker Prize) in 2013.
Location: Russell House, 350 High Street, Middletown, CT at 8 P.M. Free admission. Open to the public. |
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Monday, September 28, 2015. Yitzhak Gormezano Goren, Novelist, Playwright and Stage Director: Cosmopolitan Alexandria: An Enchanting Ship of Fools.
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| Multi -media presentation including short clips from the films The Year 66 Was Good for Tourism and the Prince of the Transit Camp as well as reading segments from Alexandrian Summer.Location: Russell House, 350 High Street, Middletown, CT at 8 P.M. Free admission. Open to the public. |
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Thursday, November 12. 2015. Assaf Gavron, Writer and Translator, The Tel Aviv Magic: History, Literature, and murder.
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| Gavron has published five novels and a collection of short stories. He has won numerous international awards such as the Prix Courrier International in France, Buch fur die Stadt in Germany, the DAAD artists in Berlin residency, and the Bernstein Prize in Israel. His fiction has been translated into ten languages, was adapted to the stage, and four of his books are optioned for movies.Location: Russell House, 350 High Street, Middletown, CT at 8 P.M. Free admission. Open to the public. |
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