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Story for Haartez Weekend Supplement’s “Small Victories” project
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Tweet on The Hilltop by Anshel Pfeffer, the Haaretz UK correspondent
Not sure when Assaf Gavron’s The Hilltop is due out in English but when it’s translated, make sure to read the only decent novel on settlers — Anshel Pfeffer (@AnshelPfeffer) March 26, 2013
Sexy
Selected in Time Out Tel Aviv’s “Sexiest People in Town” issue.
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Writers Football tournament in Haifa, June 2012
The Israeli Writers Football team will host a tournament in the city of Haifa, between 10-12 June 2012. The other participants will be the writers football teams of Germany and Italy. All the games and event will take place in … Get to know more
Hydromania Audiobook out in Hebrew
Produced and published by iCast >>> Read by Einat Weizman
Interview in France24 Culture Show
Short inteview on CrocAttack in France24 Culture Show (English). Link to show >>> (Item is between 3:00-4:15 mins)
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Mouth & Foot on live TV from the Rothchild tent-city
Mouth & Foot appeared on TV show HaYanshufim, broadcast live on channel 2 and 8, from the tent city in Rothchild Boulevard, Tel Aviv, center of Israel summer social protests. Watch video >>>
Mouth & Foot live in the Rothchild tent-city, Tel Aviv
Mouth & Fooot played a short set in support of the social protest, in the Rothchild Boulevard tent-city in Tel Aviv. Video of Got to Stop Playing: Video of Bibi You Will Never: Still:
David Foster Wallace Hebrew translation out now
The first Hebrew translation of David Foster Wallace is out now. Girl with Curious Hair is a collection of essays and stories, selected especially for this edition. The stories were translated by Elinoar Berger. The essays were translated by Assaf … Get to know more
New translation into Hebrew: Metamorphosis in comics – by Franz Kafka, adapted by Peter Cooper
Franz Kafka’s classic Metamorphosis in a comics adaptation by Peter Cooper – out now in Assaf Gavron’s Hebrew translation, in Kinneret-Zmora-Bitan Publishing.
Assaf Gavron wins Creativity Award 2011
Assaf Gavron won Israel’s Eshkol Prime minister’s Creativity Award 2011. The award is given annually to 15 Hebrew writers and pays a year’s high-school teacher’s salary. The jury wrote on Gavron that his books offer a unique mixture of hard, … Get to know more
Mouth & Foot live in Tsavta, Tel Aviv
Mouth & Foot appeared in Ram Orion’s show – cooperations, 99-09 – part of the Helem Krach festival in Tsavta, Tel Aviv. Still from “Mouth & Foot in Sapce / We Are the Licensed Garage” with Roy Chicky Arad: … Get to know more
New translation: Donald Harington – Choiring of the Trees
New translation out now: my third Hebrew translation of Donald Harington – Choiring of the Trees. Published by Toby Press.
Eating Standing Up trailer
Eating Standing Up trailer, made by Assaf Billet.
New translation: Utterly Monkey by Nick Laird
Published in Hebrew by Graf publishing.
New book in shop(s): Eating Standing Up
My new book, Eating Standing Up, is out now. The book assembles my fast food reviews for Jerusalem local magazine Kol Ha’ir, originally published between 1995-1997. The publisher is Jerusalem cafe/comics/pub/record shop Uganda, where copies are available. More details >>>
New translation: Donald Harington’s When Angels Rest
Out in Toby press: my translation of When Angels Rest by Donald Harington.
New translation: Ed Jocelin and Andrew McEwan – The Long March
Published by Books in the Attic.
New translation: Donald Harington – The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks
Published by Toby Press.
New translation: James Hawes – Speak for England
Published by Bavek Publishing.
New Translation: Jonathan Safran Foer – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Published by Kinneret-Zmora-Bitan.
New translation: Tristan Egolf – Skirt and the Fiddle
Published by Kinneret-Zmora-Bitan
Review of CrocAttack in Maariv, Israel
Appeared in Hebrew. Translated to English The essence of our times, with simplicity Book review by Arik Glasner, Ma’ariv, May 19, 2006. CrocAttack’s protagonist miraculously survives three terror attacks and becomes a celebrity. This novel breathes refreshing air into our … Get to know more
New translation: Audrey Niffeneger – The Time Traveler’s Wife
Published by Kinneret-Zmora-Bitan.
New translation: J.D. Salinger – Nine Stories
Published by Kinneret-Zmora-Bitan.
New translation: Richard Condon – The Manchurian Candidate
Published by Ivrit Publishing.
New translation: Jonathan Safran Foer – Everything is Illuminated
Published by Kinneret-Zmora-Bitan
Review of Moving in Haaretz
Jonesy Wants to Make a Killing in America Book review by Batya Gur, Ha’aretz, Galeria, March 27, 2003. This tragic-comic, fascinating, believable and original novel by Assaf Gavron, a young Israeli writer who went to work in a moving company in New … Get to know more
Review of Sex in the Cemetery in Yediot Achronot
Like Drugged Mice Book review by Prof. Yigal Schwartz, Yediot Achronot Literary Supplement, September 22, 2000. There are fourteen stories and novella in this book, with young men and women as protagonists, mostly in their late twenties. Most of them are Israelis, … Get to know more
New translation: Quentin Tarantino – Pulp Fiction
Published by Gvanim.
New translation: Douglas Coupland – Life After God
Published by Modan Publishing
