Avner sweetheart

Avner Schatz ( Hebrew אבנר ש"ץ, also Avner Shats ; * 1959 in Kiryat Yam , Israel ) is an Israeli writer living in Haifa . He first became known in 1989 when he won the short story competition of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz with his story "Feigen" . This story was written from the point of view of a fictional Palestinian girl. In 1994 he published the Ma'agalim Mudpasim (Printed Circuits) short story collection . In 1997 his first novel Lashut el Ha-Shkiʹah (Sailing into the Sunset) received the Schweipert Prize from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . In 2000 he was a Fellow of the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, where he began with the as yet unpublished novel 42 . His rhyming children's book Hila ve Dag-Ha-Gerev (Hila and the Sockfish) was published in 2005.

Schatz is considered Israel's flagship postmodernist . He won z. B. the free participation in the famous poetry workshop of Mishkenot Sha'ananim with poems from the pen of his novel protagonist Elad Manor . His works are not yet available in German, but some are available in Russian, Chinese and English.