David Grossman
David Grossman | |
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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | |
Notable awards |
2017
Man Booker International Prize
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Spouse | Michal Grossman |
Children | 3 |
David Grossman (Hebrew: דויד גרוסמן; born January 25, 1954) is an Israeli author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
In 2018, he was awarded the Israel Prize for literature.
Biography
David Grossman was born in Jerusalem. He is the elder of two brothers. His mother, Michaella, was born in
Grossman's father was a bus driver, then a librarian. Among the literature he brought home for his son to read were the stories of Sholem Aleichem.[1] At age 9, Grossman won a national competition on knowledge of Sholem Aleichem. He worked as a child actor for the national radio and continued working for the Israel Broadcasting Authority for nearly 25 years.[2]
In 1971, Grossman served in the IDF military intelligence corps. He was in the army when the Yom Kippur War broke out in 1973, but saw no action.[1]
Grossman studied philosophy and theater at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Grossman lives in
Radio career
After university, Grossman became an anchor on Kol Yisrael, Israel's national broadcasting service. In 1988 he was sacked for refusing to bury the news that the Palestinian leadership had declared its own state and conceded Israel's right to exist.[1]
Literary career
He addressed the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in his 2008 novel,
Political activism
Grossman is an outspoken
Initially supportive of Israel's action during the
Two days later, Grossman's 20-year-old son Uri, a Staff Sergeant in the
Two months after his son's death, Grossman addressed a crowd of 100,000 Israelis who had gathered to mark the anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. He denounced Ehud Olmert's government for a failure of leadership and he argued that reaching out to the Palestinians was the best hope for progress in the region: "Of course I am grieving, but my pain is greater than my anger. I am in pain for this country and for what you [Olmert] and your friends are doing to it."[1]
About his personal link to the war, Grossman said: "There were people who stereotyped me, who considered me this naive leftist who would never send his own children into the army, who didn't know what life was made of. I think those people were forced to realise that you can be very critical of Israel and yet still be an integral part of it; I speak as a reservist in the Israeli army myself.[1]
In 2010 Grossman, his wife, and her family attended demonstrations against the spread of
Awards and recognition
In 2015, Grossman withdrew his candidacy for the
- 1984: Prime Minister's Prize for Creative Work
- 1985: Bernstein Prize (original Hebrew novel category)
- 1991: Nelly Sachs Prize
- 1993: Bernstein Prize (original Hebrew novel category)
- 2001: Sapir Prize for Someone to Run With
- 2004: JQ Wingate Prize(fiction) for Someone to Run With
- 2004: Italian prize Premio Flaiano;[9]
- 2004: Bialik Prize for literature (with Haya Shenhav and Ephraim Sidon)[10]
- 2007: Emet Prize
- 2007: Ischia International Journalism Award
- 2007: honorary Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
- 2008: Geschwister-Scholl-Preis
- 2010: Albatros Literaturpreis for To the End of the Land, with German translator Anne Birch Hauer
- 2010: Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
- 2010: National Jewish Book Award for To the End of the Land[11]
- 2011: JQ Wingate Prize for To the End of the Land[12]
- 2015: St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates[13]
- 2017: Man Booker International Prize for A Horse Walks into a Bar (with translator Jessica Cohen)
- 2018: Israel Prize
- 2021: Elected a Royal Society of Literature International Writer[14]
- 2022: Winner of the Erasmus Prize. [15]
Works translated into English
Fiction
- Duel [דו קרב / Du-krav, 1982]. London: Bloomsbury, 1998, ISBN 0-7475-4092-6
- The Smile of the Lamb [חיוך הגדי / Hiyukh ha-gedi: roman, 1983]. New York: ISBN 0-374-26639-5
- See Under: Love [עיין ערך: אהבה / Ayen erekh—-ahavah: roman, 1986]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1989, ISBN 0-374-25731-0
- ISBN 0-374-11547-8
- The Zigzag Kid [יש ילדים זיג זג / Yesh yeladim zigzag, 1994]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1997, ISBN 0-374-52563-3 – won two prizes in Italy: the Premio Mondello in 1996, and the Premio Grinzane Cavourin 1997.
- Be My Knife [שתהיי לי הסכין / She-tihyi li ha-sakin, 1998]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001, ISBN 0-374-29977-3
- ISBN 0-7475-6207-5
- Her Body Knows: two novellas [בגוף אני מבינה / Ba-guf ani mevinah: tsemed novelot, 2003]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005, ISBN 0-374-17557-8
- ISBN 0-307-59297-9
- Falling Out of Time. ISBN 0-385-35013-9
- ISBN 0-451-49397-4[16]
- More Than I Love My Life, 2019, אתי החיים משחק הרבה
Nonfiction
- The Yellow Wind [הזמן הצהוב / Ha-Zeman ha-tsahov, 1987]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1988, ISBN 0-374-29345-7
- Sleeping on a Wire: Conversations with Palestinians in Israel [נוכחים נפקדים / Nokhehim Nifkadim, 1992]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1993, ISBN 0-374-17788-0
- Death as a Way of Life: Israel Ten Years after Oslo [מוות כדרך חיים / Mavet ke-derech khayyim, 2003]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003, ISBN 0-374-10211-2
- Lion’s honey : the myth of Samson [דבש אריות / Dvash arayiot, 2005]. Edinburgh; New York: Canongate, 2006, ISBN 1-84195-656-2
- Writing in the Dark: Essays on Literature and Politics New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008, ISBN 978-0-312-42860-0
Films
- The Smile of the Lamb, award-winning film written and directed by Shimon Dotan, based on the Grossman novel by the same name.
- Someone to Run With, directed by Oded Davidoff, based on the Grossman novel by the same name.[17]
- The Book of Intimate Grammar was the basis for an award-winning film by Nir Bergman.[18]
- The Zigzag Kid, directed by Vincent Bal, based on the Grossman novel by the same name.[19]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Cooke, Rachel (August 29, 2010). "David Grossman: 'I cannot afford the luxury of despair'". The Guardian. Retrieved August 29, 2010.
- ^ George Packer (27 September 2010). "The Unconsoled". The New Yorker.
- ^ Grossman, David (2006-08-19). "David Grossman: Uri, my dear son". the Guardian.
- ^ "David Grossman: Falling Out Of Time (Jonathan Cape)". Herald Scotland.
- ^ Shea, Christopher (14 June 2017). "A Horse Walks Into a Bar' Wins Man Booker International Prize". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
- ^ a b "Israel's artists are celebrated abroad; less so at home". The Economist. 23 June 2017. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
- ^ http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1154525864908[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Premi Internazionali Flaiano Introduzione". Archived from the original on 2008-10-17. Retrieved 2008-12-04.
- ^ "List of Bialik Prize recipients 1933–2004 (in Hebrew), Tel Aviv Municipality website" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 17, 2007.
- ^ "Past Winners - Fiction". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-20.
- ^ Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2011 Archived 2012-02-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Saint Louis Literary Award – Saint Louis University". www.slu.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-08-23. Retrieved 2016-07-25.
- ^ "Inaugural RSL International Writers Announced". Royal Society of Literature. November 30, 2021. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
- ^ "Erasmusprijswinnaars". Stichting Praemium Erasmianum (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-03-03.
- ISBN 978-0451493972.
- ^ Fishbein, Einat (2006-07-18). "Someone to run with". ynet.
- ^ Nozz (13 June 2012). "Hadikduk HaPnimi". IMDb.
- ^ Burr, Ty (24 April 2014). "Watching the (13-year-old) detective in 'The Zigzag Kid'". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
External links
- Robert H. Cohn (October 7, 2015). "Acclaimed Israeli author wins St. Louis Literary Award". St. Louis Jewish Light. Archived from the original on November 10, 2015. Retrieved July 25, 2016.
- David Grossman: "Writing against the Mechanism of Retaliation", Qantara.de, 13-10-2010.
- Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature, David Grossman (bibliography with brief biography). Retrieved January 12, 2005.
- Eli ESHED, "Is Naava Home? Naava's Not Home" נאווה בבית? נאווה לא בבית] (Hebrew). Retrieved January 12, 2005.
- Grossman's speech at the Rabin Memorial November 4, 2006 [1] Archived 2010-04-14 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved November 20, 2006.
- internationales literaturfestival berlin https://web.archive.org/web/20081007232013/http://www.literaturfestival.com/bios1_3_6_989.html
- Jonathan Shainin (Fall 2007). "David Grossman, The Art of Fiction No. 194". The Paris Review. Fall 2007 (182).
- David Grossman at IMDb
- David Grossman at Library of Congress, with 51 library catalogue records
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Johanna Baum, "A Literary Analysis of Tramatic Neurosis in Israeli Society: David Grossman's See Under: Love", Other Voices, vol. 2.1.