Assaf Gavron has published five novels (Ice, Moving, Almost Dead, Hydromania, and The Hilltop), a collection of short stories (Sex in the Cemetery), and a non-fiction collection of Jerusalem falafel-joint reviews (Eating Standing Up). His fiction has been translated into 10 languages. His latest English translation, Almost Dead, was published in 2010 by HarperCollins in the US, Canada and the UK (as CrocAttack), and the next will be The Hilltop (Scribner, 2014).
He has won are the Israeli Prime Minister’s Creative Award for Authors, the Israeli Bernstein Prize for the novel The Hilltop, the DAAD artists-in-Berlin fellowship in Germany, the Buch Fur Die Stadt award in Germany for the novel CrocAttack, and the Prix Courrier International award in France for the same novel.
His fiction was adapted for the stage in Habima – Israel’s national theatre, and four of his novels were optioned for movies by Israeli and international film producers.
As a translator of fiction, Gavron is responsible for the highly-regarded English-to-Hebrew translations of J.D. Salinger’s Nine Stories, Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint, and Jonathan Safran Foer’s novels, among others. He also co-translated his own Almost Dead from Hebrew to English.
He was the chief writer of the prize-winning computer game Peacemaker; and has contributed to numerous newspapers and magazines. As the captain of Israel’s national writers’ and poets’ soccer team, he led it in several international matches.
