Assaf Inbari Explained

Assaf Inbari
Birth Date: March 9, 1968
Nationality:Israeli
Occupation:Writer and journalist
Notableworks:Home (Hebrew: הביתה)
Native Name:אסף ענברי
Native Name Lang:he

Assaf Inbari (Hebrew: אסף ענברי; born March 9, 1968) is an Israeli novelist and journalist. He is the Asper Chair in Zionist Studies at Shalem College in Jerusalem and teaches at Kinneret College and .

Biography

Assaf Inbari was born and raised on Kibbutz Afikim,[1] the oldest of three children, and lived there until the age of 20. He studied Hebrew literature and comparative literature at the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students of Tel Aviv University. In 2008 he completed his Ph.D. on the poetry of Hayim Nahman Bialik at Bar-Ilan University.[2]

In 2005 he married Naomi. They have a son and a daughter. He lives on Kibbutz Degania B.

Literary career

In 2009 he published his first novel Home (Hebrew: הביתה). It relates the history of Afikim over three generations, from its founding in the Jordan Valley in the early 1930s by members of the socialist - Zionist youth movement Hashomer Hatzair, through its growth and development, to its present form, beset by privatization and individualism.[3] The novel was awarded the 2010 Israel Book Publishers Association's Platinum Prize[4] and was on the shortlist of finalists for the Sapir Prize for Literature.[5]

In 2020 Inbari was awarded the Agnon Prize for the Art of Prose.[6]

Published works

Fiction

Essays

Articles

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Avraham Balaban (18 June 2009), "Israeli History / Clowns in the Dining Room", Haaretz (retrieved 17 November 2012).
  2. Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature, New Books from Israel: Fall 2009, p. 19 (retrieved 17 November 2012).
  3. Shula Keshet, "Producing the (Eretz-) Israeli Place: On the Documentary Urge in Kibbutz Literature" (2011), Vol. 52, Hebrew Studies, pp. 235-58 (retrieved 17 November 2012).
  4. Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature, "Assaf Inbari", accessed August 6, 2020.
  5. Greer Fay Cashman (25 March 2011), "Yoram Kaniuk's War of Independence memoir wins Sapir Prize", The Jerusalem Post (retrieved 17 November 2012).
  6. https://www.ynet.co.il/entertainment/article/ByYPyVFKv הסופר אסף ענברי זכה בפרס עגנון