Sara Shilo

Sara Shilo, German-Israeli Literature Days 2012

Sara Shilo ( Hebrew שרה שילה; * 1958 in Jerusalem ) is an Israeli author .

Life

She is an oriental Jew . Her mother is Iraqi , her father is of Syriac origin. She worked as a social worker in Ma'alot and founded a puppet theater there. In 2005 she published the novel Dwarfs Don't Come Here , which became a great success in Israel and was on the bestseller list for several months. In 2009, the novel was published in German translation by Anne Birkenhauer and has been discussed several times in German feature pages, including in the Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung , the Austrian newspaper Die Presse , in der Welt , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and in literatures .

Sara Shilo is married and has five children.

Awards

• Sapir Prize 2005 for dwarfs don't come here

plant

• Dwarves don't come here . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-24716-0 .

Web links

Commons : Sara Shilo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Sara Shilo in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Sara Shilo at perlentaucher.de
• Sigrid Brinkmann: Voice of the speechless . Jüdische Allgemeine online, February 11, 2010
• Page at the Deutsche Taschenbuchverlag

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sigrid Brinkmann: Beside the track In: Deutschlandradio Kultur from May 27, 2009
2. ↑ Bettina Spoerri: “My characters talk about what they lack” . In: NZZ , March 7, 2009
3. ↑ Anat Feinberg : An apartment far from hell . In: Die Welt , May 30, 2009
4. ↑ Anna-Maria Wallner: Sara Shilo: In the Katjuscha rain . In: Die Presse , April 12, 2009
5. ^ Jakob Hessing: Family therapy via microphone . In: FAZ , April 25, 2009
6. ↑ A novel like an oriental lament for the dead  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Literatures , edition 07-08 / 09