Eshkol Nevo

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Eshkol Nevo (2012)

Eshkol Nevo ( Hebrew אשכול נבו; born February 28, 1971 in Jerusalem ) is an Israeli writer .

Life

Eshkol Nevo grew up in Israel and Detroit , USA . He is a grandson of Levi Eshkol , Israel's third prime minister . He did his military service as an officer in the Israeli army until 1993 at the time of the first Intifada . He studied psychology at Tel Aviv University . He then worked as a copywriter before receiving a teaching position in creative writing at Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Universities .

His first novel, Four Houses and One Longing , was on the bestseller list in Israel for over a year and a half.

Works (selection)

  • Four houses and one longing. Novel. Translation Anne Birkenhauer . Munich: dtv, 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-13758-4 ) [Hebr. Original title: Arba'a batim ve ga'agua , 2004]
  • We still have all of life. Novel. From the Hebrew by Markus Lemke. Munich: dtv, 2010, ISBN 978-3-423-24790-0 [Hebr. Original title: Mish'ala achat yamina , 2007]
  • New territory . Novel. Translation Anne Birkenhauer. Munich: dtv, 2013, ISBN 978-3-423-28022-8 [Hebr. Original title: Noiland , 2011]
  • The lonely lovers . Novel. Translation Anne Birkenhauer. Munich: dtv, 2016, ISBN 978-3-423-26088-6 [Hebr. Original title: Ha-Mikveh Ha-Acharon Be-Sibir , 2014]
  • About us. Novel. From the Hebrew by Markus Lemke. Munich: dtv , 2018, ISBN 978-3-423-28131-7 [Hebr. Original title: Shalosh komot , 2015]
  • The truth is . From the Hebrew by Markus Lemke. Munich: dtv, 2020

Awards

  • 2005 Book Publishers Association: Gold Prize, Israel (for Four Houses and One Longing )
  • 2008 Book Publishers Association: Platinum Prize, Israel (for We Still Got Whole Life )
  • 2008 Salon du Livre, Paris: Raymond Wallier Prize, France (for four houses and one longing )
  • 2009 Finalist of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, UK (with Four Houses and One Longing )
  • 2011 Premio Letterario Adei-Wizo, Italy (for We still have our whole life )
  • 2011 Finalist of the Critics' Prize of the Jury of Young Critics, Austria (with We still have the whole life )
  • 2012 Steimatzky Prize (for new territory )

Web links

Commons : Eshkol Nevo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Uwe Stolzmann: Irrlichter Ferne , review, in: NZZ , May 28, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Nevo, Eshkol
ALTERNATIVE NAMES אשכול נבו (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem