Tamar Yellin
Tamar Yellin (* 1963 in Leeds ) is a British author . She was born in northern England and studied Arabic and Hebrew in Oxford . Today she lives in Yorkshire . Her father's family is from Jerusalem and her mother is the daughter of a Polish immigrant. Her first (and so far only) novel The Legacy of Shalom Sheper was published in German in 2008 . For this work she was awarded the Sami Rohr Prize and the Ribalow Prize for Jewish Literature . The novel has been translated into Spanish and Polish , among others . She has also published short stories in various magazines and in the short story book Kafka in Bronteland and other stories , which gathers short stories from 1989 to 2003.
Works
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The Genizah at the House of Shepher , Roman, Toby Press 2005
- German translation by Isabel Bogdan : The legacy of Shalom Shepher . Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-442-46214-8 .
- Kafka in Bronteland and other stories , short stories, Toby Press 2006
- Tales of the Ten Lost Tribes , short stories, Toby Press 2008
Web links
- Homepage of the author with biographical information, photo and more
- Literature by and about Tamar Yellin in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yellin, Tamar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leeds , England |