Aharon Appelfeld

Aharon Appelfeld is the author of more than forty works of fiction and nonfiction, including Blooms of Darkness (winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize), Badenheim 1939, The Iron Tracks (winner of the National Jewish Book Award), and Tzili: The Story of a Life (winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger). Other honours he has received include the Giovanni Bocaccio Literary Prize, the Nelly Sachs Prize, the Israel Prize, the Bialik Prize, and the MLA Commonwealth Award.