Shimon Adaf Explained

Shimon Adaf (Hebrew: שמעון אדף, born 1972) is an Israeli poet and author born in Sderot.^[1] Shimon, born to parents of Moroccan origin, now lives in Jaffa. ^[2]

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.^[3]

He was interviewed on the Shaping Business Minds Through Art podcast in 2020.^[4]

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

External links

• Web site: Shimon Adaf . The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature.
• Web site: Shimon Adaf . . Hebrew, German .
• Web site: Review of Aviva-No, trans: Yael Segalovitz . November 2019 . publishersweekly.com.
• Web site: Aviva-No . Alice James Books.
• Web site: Review of Aviva-No, trans: Yael Segalovitz . 6 November 2019 . themillions.com.
• Web site: Review of Aviva-No, trans: Yael Segalovitz . 10 December 2019 . worldliteraturetoday.org.

Notes and References

1. News: Naama Gershy . 2 July 2008 . Netivot, the heart of everything . Haaretz . https://web.archive.org/web/20081121150717/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/998377.html . 21 November 2008 . 27 January 2014.
2. Web site: Shimon Adaf . 2024-05-21 . The Israeli Institute for Hebrew Literature המכון הישראלי לספרות עברית . en-US.
3. News: 17 February 2013 . Israel's top literary award, Sapir Prize, goes to Shimon Adaf . Haaretz . 19 February 2013.
4. 1. 6 Shimon Adaf. Speculative Thinking. - Shaping Business Minds Through Art
   . The Artian Podcast. 2021-02-26.