Yishai Sarid
Yishai Sarid (* 1965 in Tel Aviv-Jaffa , Israel ) is an Israeli lawyer and writer.
Life
Sarid is the son of Israeli news anchor and politician Jossi Sarid . He first worked as an intelligence officer in the Israeli army before studying law in Jerusalem and graduating from Harvard with a degree in public administration. He later worked as a prosecutor in criminal cases before setting up as a lawyer. His first novel was published in 2000. In 2009 he published the political thriller Limassol, which was implemented as a radio play on WDR in 2011 . His novel Monster (2017) deals with the way the Holocaust is dealt with today in Israel in the person of a "tour guide" who leads Israeli school classes and groups of soldiers through concentration camps and is subject to ever increasing irritation .
Sarid lives and works in Tel Aviv.
Awards (selection)
- 2011: Grand prix de littérature policière, “International” category for Limassol
Works (selection)
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Limassol . At the Oved 2009
- German: Limassol , translated from the Hebrew by Helene Seidler. Verlag Kein & Aber, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-0369-5554-4 .
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Gan Na'omi (Naomi's Kindergarten). At the Oved 2013
- German: Anything but child's play , translated from the Hebrew by Helene Seidler. Verlag Kein & Aber, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-0369-5703-6 .
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Mifletzet HaZicharon (monster of memory). At the Oved 2017
- German: Monster , translated from Hebrew by Ruth Achlama . Verlag Kein & Aber, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-0369-5796-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Yishai Sarid in the catalog of the German National Library
- "The doubly good agent" (book review of Limassol on sf magazin)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dark Reality . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 2010, p. 123 ( online ).
- ↑ The page about the radio play Limassol on WDR 5
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sarid, Yishai |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli lawyer and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tel Aviv-Jaffa , Israel |