Agnon, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966 was the first writer in Modern Hebrew prose to give the language real international standing. He was though, radically unlike other great, Nobel-winning writers of the century like Thomas Mann or Albert Camus. Some of his preoccupations, (more...)
by Aharon Appelfeld Translated by Dalya Bilu Original title: Badenhaim, ’ir nofesh
Appelfeld’s early life was as terrifyingly eventful and shocking as his novels are terrifyingly calm and understated; born in Romania, he had lived through the murder of his mother and his own deportation to a labour camp before he turned eight. (more...)