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David Grossman
David Grossman
Yehoshua held a press conference at which they urged the government to agree to a ceasefire that would create the basis for a negotiated solution. Two days later, his 20-year-old son Uri, a staff sergeant in an armoured unit, was killed by an anti-tank missile during an IDF operation in southern Lebanon shortly before the ceasefire. [1] In a premonitory interview in 2000, he declared that Israelis support ’a culture of death’: "Married couples say, ’We’ll have three children, so if one of them dies, there will be two left’." [2] Grossman lives in Mevasseret Zion on the outskirts of Jerusalem. He is married and the father of three children, Jonathan, 26, Ruth, 15, and the late Uri.
Awards
David Grossman (2007) David Grossman (Hebrew: ןמסורג דיוד) born in Jerusalem on January 25, 1954, is an Israeli author of fiction, nonfiction, and youth and children’s literature. His books have been translated into numerous languages. The Yellow Wind, his nonfiction study of the Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip met with acclaim abroad but sparked controversy at home. In 1984, Grossman won the Prime Minister’s Prize for Creative Work. In 2004 he was awarded the prestigious Italian prize Premio Flaiano*; in 2007 he was awarded the Emet Prize and in 2008 the Geschwister-SchollPreis. On February 2, 2007, Grossman was awarded the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
Biography
Grossman studied philosophy and theater at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He worked as a correspondent and radio actor for Kol Yisrael, Israel’s national broadcasting service. He was one of the presenters of Cat in a Sack, a children’s program broadcast from 1970 to 1984. His book Duel was first aired as a radio drama on Kol Yisrael. Together with Dani Eldar, he hosted the slapstick radio program, Stutz (Yiddish: "that can happen"). Grossman, an outspoken peace activist and well respected by anti-zionists, supported Israel during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. On August 10, 2006, however, he and fellow authors Amos Oz and A.B.
Fiction in English translation
• The Smile of the Lamb [ / ידגה ךויחHiyukh ha-gedi: roman, 1983]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1990, ISBN 0-374-26639-5 • See Under: Love [ / הבהא :ךרע ןייעAyen erekh—-ahavah: roman, 1986]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1989, ISBN 0-374-25731-0 • The Book of Intimate Grammar [קודקדה רפס / ימינפהSefer ha-dikduk ha-penimi: roman, 1991]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1994, ISBN 0-374-11547-8 • The Zigzag Kid [ / גז גיז םידלי שיYesh yeladim zigzag, 1994]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1997, ISBN 0-374-52563-3 won two prizes in Italy: the Premio
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Mondello in 1996, and the Premio Grinzane Cavour in 1997. Be My Knife [ / ןיכסה יל ייהתשShe-tihyi li hasakin, 1998]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001, ISBN 0-374-29977-3 Someone to Run With [/ ותיא ץורל והשימ Mishehu laruts ito, 2000]. London: Bloomsbury, 2003, ISBN 0-7475-6207-5 Her Body Knows: two novellas [הניבמ ינא ףוגב / Ba-guf ani mevinah: tsemed novelot, 2003]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005, ISBN 0-374-17557-8 Duel [ / ברק ודDu-krav, 1982]. London: Bloomsbury, 1998, ISBN 0-7475-4092-6
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See Also
• List of Jewish pacifists and peace activists
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References
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[1] http://www.jpost.com/servlet/ Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFul [2] /http://livres.lexpress.fr/entretien.asp/ idC=3089/idR=5/idTC=4/idG=0 [3] http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/ 0,7340,L-3277639,00.html
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External links
• Johanna Baum, A Literary Analysis of Tramatic Neurosis in Israeli Society: David Grossman’s See Under: Love, Other Voices, vol. 2.1. • Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature, David Grossman (bibliography with brief biography). Retrieved January 12, 2005. • ( ןמסורג דיודDavid Grossman) from the Hebrew-language Wikipedia. Retrieved January 12, 2005. • Eli ESHED, "Is Naava Home? Naava’s Not Home" ( ]תיבב אל הוואנ ?תיבב הוואנHebrew). Retrieved January 12, 2005. • Grossman’s speech at the Rabin Memorial November 4, 2006 [1] Retrieved November 20, 2006. • Interview to the french magazine L’Express (France), November 30, 2000 • internationales literaturfestival berlin http://www.literaturfestival.com/ bios1_3_6_989.html • David Grossman at the Internet Movie Database • Works by or about David Grossman in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Nonfiction in English translation
• The Yellow Wind [ / בוהצה ןמזהHa-Zeman hatsahov, 1987]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1988, ISBN 0-374-29345-7 • Sleeping on a Wire: Conversations with Palestinians in Israel [/ םידקפנ םיחכונ 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 [ / םייח ךרדכ תוומMavet ke-derech khayyim, 2003]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003, ISBN 0-374-10211-2 • Lion’s honey : the myth of Samson [שבד / תויראDvash arayiot, 2005]. Edinburgh; New York: Canongate, 2006, ISBN 1-84195-656-2
Films
• Smile of the Lamb (novel) was the basis for an award-winning film written and directed by Shimon Dotan. • Someone to Run With (novel) was the basis for a film directed by Oded Davidoff.[3]
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