Nava Semel
Nava Semel (born September 15, 1954 in Jaffa ; died December 2, 2017 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli journalist and writer living in Tel Aviv who primarily dealt literarily with the fate of people whose parents or parents' generation Survived the Holocaust and its horrors.
Life
Nava Semel studied art history at Tel Aviv University . At the age of seventeen, she began working in various journalistic professions, including as a production assistant for Israeli television and radio. She worked for the Nahum Goldmann Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv and wrote articles for various art and women's magazines in Israel. In addition to short stories, poems and plays, she has written novels and several children's books. In Germany she was best known for her novel Gerschona , which received the National Jewish Book Award in the United States . In 1989 WDR broadcast her radio play Hunger .
Nava Semel was married to Noam Semel, the director of the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv. Nava Semel died in 2017 of complications from cancer . Her older brother is the well-known Israeli folk rock singer Shlomo Artzi .
Works / editions
- Glass facets. Ten stories , Frankfurt / Main 2000 (from the Hebrew by Mirjam Pressler ; first published in Israel 1985)
- Gerschona , Frankfurt am Main 1988 (from the Hebrew by Mirjam Pressler; several editions, also in English: Becoming Gershona , New York 1990)
- Flight hours. The story of the girl Hadra, who wants to escape the confines of her world , Berlin 1990 (children's book, from the Hebrew by Mirjam Pressler; several editions, also in English: Flying Lessons , 1995)
- And the rat laughs , Mannheim 2001 (novel, from the Hebrew by Mirjam Pressler; further editions, also in English: And The Rat Laughed , 2009. As an opera 2005 with the composer Ella Milch-Sheriff )
- The bride of my brother , Munich 2003 (novel; translated from the Hebrew by Mirjam Pressler; nominated for the German Youth Literature Prize 2004)
- Mourning, Hope and Radishes , Frankfurt am Main 2005
- Love for beginners. Seven stories , Berlin 2010 (from the Hebrew by Mirjam Pressler , illustrated by Gerda Raidt )
Awards
- 2010: Reading Peter of the Month for October for the youth book Love for Beginners
literature
- Mirjam Morad: Nava Semel . In: Mirjam Morad (Hrsg.): Encounter with children's and youth literature from Israel. Catalog for the event week and exhibition (= ZIRKULAR special number 39, June 1994). Documentation center for newer Austrian literature in the Literaturhaus , Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-900467-39-0 , p. 87
Web links
- Literature by and about Nava Semel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hanna Huhtasaari: Dreaming means believing in the future: Interview with Nava Semel . Federal Agency for Civic Education , June 10, 2008, accessed on December 3, 2017 (on the subject of the Holocaust and 60 years of Israel)
- Nava Semel at ITHL (Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature)
- Official Website (Hebrew)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Encounter with children's and youth literature from Israel , 1994, p. 87
- ^ Greer Fay Cashman: Multi-talented Nava Semel succumbs to cancer at age 63. The Jerusalem Post , December 2, 2017, accessed December 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Nava Semel: Love for Beginners . Read Peter of the Month October 2010, accessed on December 3, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Semel, Nava |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 15, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tel Aviv |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd December 2017 |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv |