Ron Leshem

Ron Leshem (2005)

Ron Leshem (born December 20, 1976 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli writer and journalist .

Life

As a child, Ron Leshem appeared on various Israeli television programs . He did his military service in a unit of the intelligence service . Between 1998 and 2002, Leshem worked as a member of the editorial board of the Israeli daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth and reported on the Al-Aqsa Intifada for news magazines . In December 2002, Leshem moved to Maariw newspaper , where he was deputy editor and head of the news department. Since 2006 Leshem has been the program manager at the production company "Keshet" at the Israeli television broadcaster Kanal 2. Leshem lives in Givatayim and is open to his homosexuality.

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In 2005, Leshem published the novel When There is a Paradise (original title: Im jesh gan eden), which was awarded the Sapir Literature Prize and the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize for Military Literature . "If there is a paradise" is about the life of Israeli soldiers on the Beaufort military base in southern Lebanon , shortly before the army withdrew from the former fortress in 2000. Leshem found his own very authentic text for this anti-war text acting style of speech.

The book was made into a film two years later under the name " Beaufort " and directed by Joseph Cedar . The film "Beaufort" received international recognition and was awarded the Silver Bear at the 2007 Berlinale . It was also nominated for an Oscar for "Best Foreign Language Film" in 2008 and received four awards at the Israeli Ophir Film Award . In 2011 the book was adapted for the theater and premiered in the Habimah Theater in Tel Aviv.

In 2009 Leshem's second book The Secret Bazaar (original title: Megilat zchujot hajareach) appeared, in which he writes about the wild life of young people in Tehran , which also became a bestseller.

Web links

Literature by and about Ron Leshem in the catalog of the German National Library
Ron Leshem in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

^ Entry on Ron Leshem in the Lexicon for Modern Hebrew Literature . Retrieved January 11, 2012.
↑ Ron Leshem receives Sapir Literature Prize . In Hebrew, accessed January 11, 2012.
↑ The Men of Beaufort . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 28, 2008, ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 5, 2017]).
^ Entry on Ron Leshem in the Lexicon for Modern Hebrew Literature . Retrieved January 11, 2012.
↑ Habima Theater: Beaufort - by Ron Leshem, directed by Moshe Kepten ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved January 11, 2012. @1@ 2

↑ How did the writer Ron Leshem manage to write about Tehran as if he had lived there for years? . Haaretz, September 19, 2009, accessed January 11, 2012.

personal data
SURNAME	Leshem, Ron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Israeli writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	20th December 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tel Aviv

[1] Entry on Ron Leshem in the Lexicon for Modern Hebrew Literature . Retrieved January 11, 2012.

[2] Ron Leshem receives Sapir Literature Prize . In Hebrew, accessed January 11, 2012.

[3] The Men of Beaufort . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 28, 2008, ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 5, 2017]).

[4] Entry on Ron Leshem in the Lexicon for Modern Hebrew Literature . Retrieved January 11, 2012.

[5] Habima Theater: Beaufort - by Ron Leshem, directed by Moshe Kepten ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved January 11, 2012. @1@ 2

[6] How did the writer Ron Leshem manage to write about Tehran as if he had lived there for years? . Haaretz, September 19, 2009, accessed January 11, 2012.