Amir Gutfreund ( he, אמיר גוטפרוינד) (July 23, 1963 - November 27, 2015) was an
Israel
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i writer and columnist for the ''
Maariv
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The service will often begin with two verses from Psalms, ...
'' newspaper.
[אמיר גוטפרוינד (1963־2015) Amir Guttfreund]
In: ''Lerxicon of Modern Hebrew Literature'', Ohio State University
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Books
*2000: ' (novel, translated into German, English, French, Czech and Hungarian)
*2002: אחוזות החוף ''Ahuzot HaHof'' or ''The Shoreline Mansions'' (short story collection)[Shiri Lev-Ari]
"A Writer Dressed in Khaki"
''Haaretz
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'', June 17, 2003
*2005:העולם, קצת אחר כך ''The World, a Little Later'' (novel)
** In English: ''The World a Moment Later'' (translated by Jessica Cohen, Toby Press
Toby Press was an American comic-book company that published from 1949 to 1955. Founded by Elliott Caplin, brother of cartoonist Al Capp and himself an established comic strip writer, the company published reprints of Capp's '' Li'l Abner'' s ...
)
*2008: בשבילה גיבורים עפים ''Heroes Fly to Her'' / ''When Heroes Fly'' (novel)
*2013: מזל עורב ''Crow''
*2014: אגדת ברונו ואדלה (Agadát Bruno VeAdela), ''The Legend of Bruno and Adela''[
*2016: הר האושר ''Mount of Happiness'' / ''Mount of Beatitudes'' (unfinished, posthumous)
]
Awards
*2001: for ''Our Holocaust''
*2003: Sapir Prize
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for ''Ahuzot HaHof''[
*2009: ]Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize
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for ''The World a Moment Later''
*2015: for ''The Legend of Bruno and Adela''פרס רמת־גן לספרות
amat Gan Prize for Literature2015 (retrieved May 25, 2022)["THE LEGEND OF BRUNO AND ADELA"]
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Influence
* '' When Heroes Fly'', Israeli drama TV series based on the novel ''Heroes Fly to Her''. The series won Best Series at the first Canneseries
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Festival in April 2018.Echo 3
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'', an English-language TV series based on the Israeli series
*'' The Matchmaker (2010 film)'' ( he, פעם הייתי, lit. "Once I Was", ''Once Upon a Time I Was''), inspired by the novel ''When Heroes Fly''
References
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1963 births
2015 deaths
Israeli writers
Israeli columnists