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David Grossman
Israeli novelist and children's author
David Grossman (
David Grossman
He is an Israeli novelist and author of children's books.
Proof of: Love
","
To the end of the earth
When a Horse Walks Into a Bar.
David Grossman was born on January 25, 1954
Jerusalem
, previously in
Hebrew University
He studied philosophy and drama, and later worked as a reporter and host for the "Voice of Israel" of the National Radio of Israel. He began writing in the 1980s and published his first novel, The Smile of the Lamb, in 1983. He was awarded the Israeli Prime Minister's Innovation Award, the German Book Industry Peace Prize, and the Year 2017
Man Booker International Prize
And other awards.
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In November 2021, he was awarded the Royal Society of Literature International Writer's Lifetime Award.
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- Chinese name
- David Grossman
- Foreign name
- David Grossman
- nationality
- Israel
- Ethnic group
- Jew
- Place of Birth
- Jerusalem
- Date of birth
- January 25th, 1954
- Graduate School
- Hebrew University
- occupation
- WRITER
- Representative works
- Proof of: Love , To the end of the earth
- Major achievement
- 2017 year Man Booker International Prize
David Grossman
At the age of eight, David Grossman began to read the Adventures of Motol by the famous Jewish writer Sholom Alayham, and at the age of nine, he worked as a young reporter for Israel Radio, then studied philosophy and drama at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and as an adult, he worked as a reporter and host for the "Voice of Israel" of Israel National Radio.
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In the 1980s, David Grossman began writing literature.
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In 1983, David Grossman published his first novel, The Smile of the Lamb, the first novel in Israeli literature to deal with the West Bank and feature Palestinian Arabs as the main characters.
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In 1986, he published The Proof of Love, which broke the boundaries of traditional literature and depicted the "abnormal" lives of the next generation of Holocaust survivors in an intersectional, metaphorical and original text, creating a precedent in Israeli magic realism literature.
In 1987, at the invitation of an Israeli news weekly, Grossman visited a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank. After that, he completed a collection of essays titled Yellow Wind, which faithfully depicted the living conditions of Palestine refugees.
David Grossman
In 2003, he published Death as a Way of Life, a collection of political essays he had published since the Oslo Accords of 1993, advocating the return of the two peoples to a "historical process" of peace, with borders and no war.
In August 2006, during the Second Lebanon War, Grossman's second son Uri was ordered into Lebanon with Israeli troops, and Grossman joined two other left-wing writers seeking peace, Oz and Joshua, in calling for a ceasefire. Two days later, just hours before the cease-fire, Uri was killed by Hezbollah fire.
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In 2008, David Grossman published a blockbuster book, To the End of the Earth. In the same year, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Florence, Italy.
In 2010, Grossmann was awarded the German Book Industry Peace Prize.
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In 2011, Grossman published another book about the loss of his son, "Out of Time," a novel in verse.
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On June 14, 2017, David Grossman won the 2017 award for "When a Horse Walks Into a Bar"
Man Booker International Prize
.
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Title of work
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Type of work
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Creation time
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Smile of the Lamb
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novel
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1983
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novel
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1986
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The Yellow Wind
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sketchbook
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1987
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The Inner Grammar Book
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novel
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1991
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Sleeping in the Line of Fire
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sketchbook
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1992
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novel
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2000
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novel
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2002
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Death as a Way of Life
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sketchbook
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2003
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The Honey of the Lion
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sketchbook
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2005
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novel
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2007
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Writing in the Dark
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sketchbook
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2008
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The Woman Hiding from the News
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novel
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2008
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Out of Time
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Poetic novel
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2011
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When a Horse Walks Into a Bar
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novel
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2017
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Above reference
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David Grossman
David Grossman
Pain has been an important feature of David Grossman's life in recent years. The sense of disaster born after the death of his son in the Second Lebanon War affected every moment of his life. The power of memory is great and heavy indeed. However, writing as he creates some kind of space. In this space, death is no longer diametrically opposed to life, and in writing, he no longer feels himself in a duality between "victim" and "aggressor." When he writes, he is a complete man, with natural passages between his parts, some of which are closer to suffering than to the claims of justice held by Israel's enemies without giving up their identity.
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David Grossman
In The novel "Fanaticism," David Grossman strips out all politics and tries to let language and humanity rule - swapping his telescope for a magnifying glass and peering closely at events and characters. In Manias, the plot of the story is mostly brought out through the narration and inner activities of the characters, and Grossman is very clear that his goal is not to describe an unfortunate love story clearly and smoothly, but to destroy his grasp of the character's manias. On the contrary, it may prevent him from obtaining the inner truth of the things he desires and the inner truth of the words. In order to correspond to the emotional confusion of the characters, in the narrative mode, the conversation and memory of the novel characters are intertwined, and the recalled scenes are often grafted in the car within a line of words, free access in the flow of language, and the person transformation is also very flexible, and even the person has changed its master several times in a sentence. Facts are thus turned upside down, and words and imagination begin to show their power. Such a technique adds to the obstacles of reading, but more vividly depicts the trance, restlessness and entanglement of the characters in the novel. On the other hand, the fanatical heart of the novel characters also activates the language itself, and the novel words thus get rid of the dull roots of the instrumental language and win their own life in the floating encounter with the novel characters.
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Above reference
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David Grossman is ambitious and writes this novel (" When a Horse Walks Into a Bar ") with the skill of a high-wire act, and it turns out to be excellent. We fall for Grossman's courage to take emotional and stylistic risks: every sentence is powerful, every word is to the point, and every word is a display of this writer's extraordinary craft. (
Comments by Nick Barrie, Director of the Edinburgh International Book Fair and Chairman of the Literary Prize jury
)
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Grossman is a master of telling true stories. (
Review by Ian Sansom, British writer
)
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