Zvi Jagendorf

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Zvi Jagendorf ( Hebrew צבי יגנדורף; born 1936 in Vienna ) is an Israeli writer .

Life

Zvi Jagendorf's family fled from Nazi persecution to England in 1939 , where he grew up and studied. He later settled in Israel and taught English and drama at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem .

Jagendorf published short stories in English as well as scientific articles .

His first and so far only novel, Wolfy and the Strudelbakers , was published in 2001 and was nominated for the prestigious Booker Prize in the same year . In artfully youthful language, Jagendorf describes the growing up of a boy from a Jewish family who fled Vienna in London in the 1950s.

Translated into German by Verena von Koskull , the book was published in 2004 under the title Die fabelbaren Strudelbakers .

Jagendorf was awarded the Wingate Literature Prize (shortlist) in 2002 and the Saggitarius Prize in 2002 for his debut novel .

Short stories

(English, very incomplete list)

  • Pictures of Reuben Mizrahi. In: Ariel - A Quarterly Review of Arts and Letters in Israel - Special Literary Issue - Number 33-34 1973 p. 141
  • The Key to Judah's Camp. In: Natasha Lehrer, ed. The Golden Chain: Fifty Years of the Jewish Quarterly. Portland, Vallentine Mitchell, 2003.

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personal data
SURNAME Jagendorf, Zvi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES צבי יגנדורף
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna