Orly Castel-Bloom

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Orly Castel-Bloom (2017)

Orly Castel-Bloom ; Hebrew אורלי קסטל-בלום (born November 26, 1960 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli writer .

Life

Orly Castel-Bloom was born in northern Tel Aviv to Egyptian Jews from Cairo . According to her own statements, the author spoke only French during her early childhood years - following the example of the social demands of Cairo - and only learned Hebrew a few years later in contact with other children in state schools. She then studied film studies at Tel Aviv University . As a writer, she has been publishing her works since 1987. In 1999 she was voted one of the 50 most influential women in Israel . Castel-Bloom had a major influence on modern Israeli literature . Her novel Dolly City has received several awards, was included in the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works and adapted for a play.

In 2015, the novel An Egyptian Novel was published, which contains both autobiographical references to Castel-Bloom's own family and purely fictional-surreal elements. The novel is part of the culture of remembrance of the Jewish diaspora community in Cairo before the fall of the Egyptian royal family in the 1950s, as well as the contemporary Israeli processing of Zionist ideals and later realities. In the same year the work was awarded the Sapir Prize.

Castel-Bloom has two children and lives with her family in Tel Aviv. She has taught at Harvard , Cambridge and Oxford Universities, and has been Professor of Creative Writing at Tel Aviv University for several years .

Works (selection)

  • Not Far From the Center of Town (short stories, 1987)
  • Hostile Surroundings (short stories, 1989)
  • Where Am I (Novella, 1990)
  • Dolly City , 1992, German 1998 (translated by Mirjam Pressler )
  • Minna Lisa (Roman, German: Munich 1998, from the Hebr. Translated by M. Pressler)
  • The sea behind you (Roman, German: Munich 2004, from the Hebr. Translated by M. Pressler)
  • Human Parts (Novella, Boston, Massachusetts 2004)
  • An Egyptian Novel (Roman, 2015)

Awards

  • Alterman Prize
  • Newman Prize
  • Sapir price

literature

  • Gershon Shaked , History of Modern Hebrew Literature , Frankfurt am Main 1996, p. 335; 353

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Orly Castel-Bloom. Retrieved June 26, 2017 (English).
  2. ^ Orly Castel-Bloom Scoops Always Controversial Sapir Prize . In: The Forward . ( forward.com [accessed June 26, 2017]).
  3. ↑ http://www.ithl.org.il/page_13310. Retrieved June 26, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Castel-Bloom, Orly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli author
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Tel Aviv