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Aharon Appelfeld authored more than 45 acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction and received many international awards including the MLA Commonwealth Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction prize, the prix Medicis etranger, the Israel prize, and the Nelly Sachs prize. Born in Czernowitz, Bukovina (now part of Ukraine) in 1932, he survived the Holocaust and passed away in Israel in 2018.
Aharon Appelfeld's controlled fiction compresses large themes into small spaces... He is a worthy successor to Kafka' -- Jonathan Raban * The New York Times Book Review * Among us, the writer-survivors, Appelfeld's voice has a unique, unmistakeable tone . . . I am struck with awe and admiration -- Primo Levi Like a bedtime story written by Kafka * The Tablet * The writing flows seamlessly . . . a small masterpiece -- Irving Howe * The New York Times Book Review * A displaced writer of displaced fiction who has made of displacement and disorientation a subject uniquely his own -- Philip Roth Like something by the Brothers Grimm crossed with Kafka and Isaac Bashevis Singer * The New York Times *
