Maya Sela
By Maya Sela
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The Schmooze Will Israeli Writers’ Festival Ban Politics?
Crossposted from Haaretz When the director of the International Writers Festival in Jerusalem wants to convince international authors to attend the festival despite pressure to boycott it, she often trots out the fact that an opening speaker in 2010 criticized Israel in his comments. But now the festival is instituting a new requirement: Opening speakers…
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The Schmooze Two Poets Win Yehuda Amichai Prize
Crossposted from Haaretz Haviva Pedaya and Mois Ben Harash are the recipients of this year’s Yehuda Amichai Prize for Hebrew Poetry, the award’s panel announced, with the NIS 30,000 purse to be granted at a Jerusalem ceremony next month. The Yehuda Amichai Prize for Hebrew poetry is granted by the City of Jerusalem and the…
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The Schmooze Israeli Writers Rebuke Gunter Grass
Crossposted from Haaretz The Hebrew Writers Association in Israel on Monday denounced a controversial poem by Nobel Literature laureate Guenter Grass in which he criticizes Israel for threatening to attack Iran. The writers association said it would ask International PEN, a worldwide body of writers, to “publicly distance itself from Grass’ remarks and to come…
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The Schmooze Israeli Bill to Protect Authors
Crossposted from Haaretz The Culture and Sports Ministry published details on Wednesday of a proposed Knesset bill designed to protect the interests of authors. If passed into law, the bill would bar retailers from discounting new books for the first 18 months after they are published, and provide authors an 8 percent royalty on the…
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The Schmooze Israeli Author Kicked off French Literary Panel
Crossposted from Haaretz There was a stir at a conference of Mediterranean writers in Marseilles yesterday when Israeli author Moshe Sakal was booted from a panel discussion at the request of Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish. The director of the conference, French-Jewish author Pierre Assouline, said Sakal’s participation in the panel, which was on the Arab…
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Books Sayed Kashua and Omri Herzog Win Bernstein Literary Prize
Crossposted from Haaretz Author Sayed Kashua and literary critic Dr. Omri Herzog are the winners of the Bernstein Prize for 2011. Kashua received the NIS 50,000 prize for an original novel in Hebrew for “Second Person Singular” (Keter Books). He writes a weekly column in Haaretz Magazine. Herzog was awarded the NIS 15,000 prize for…
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Books Found in Translation
Crossposted from Haaretz Moshe Sakal lived for six years in France, where he learned to speak fluent French with a Parisian accent, but when he talked to his Egyptian-born, French-speaking grandmother back home in Israel – she would give him a haughty look. “She spoke like Dalida,” he said, referring to the popular multilingual Egyptian…
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Books Israel and Germany Collaborate on Online Archive
Crossposted from Haaretz Soon you’ll be able to read the personal archives of Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem online. Hundreds of medieval manuscripts, scores of personal archives and many other materials retained at the National Library in Jerusalem will be digitized, as part of a joint project by the Israeli and German governments. The materials…
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