Shay K. Azoulay

Shay K. Azoulay ( he, שי אזולאי) is an Israeli writer who writes in English and Hebrew.

Plays

Azoulay's debut play, "The Platoon", a satire about the IDF, won first place in the 2012 staged reading festival "Zav Kriah". The play was staged in Tel Aviv's Tzavtah Theater in 2014-2015 and received good reviews in the press, including a review by prominent theater critic Michael Handelzalts, who compared it to the work of Hanoch Levin. The play also stirred controversy, following an article which mistakenly claimed that the play depicts IDF soldiers raping Palestinian women. A member of the Tel Aviv municipal council sent a letter to the theater, demanding that they stop the staging of the play.
Azoulay's other work includes the one-act play "Shade", which participated in the Tzavtah Theater's 2012 Short play Festival, and "Barabas" - a reimagining of Christopher Marlowe's "The Jew of Malta".

Fiction

Azoulay's debut novel ''Lazaretto'' was published in summer 2019 in Hebrew. A review in ''Haaretz'' described the novel as “an ambitious, high-tension novel, seeped in paranoia... ''Lazaretto'' is a disturbing and stirring dystopia which haunted me while I was reading it and even after I’d finished.” The novel was named "Book of the Year" by '' LaIsha'' Magazine which dubbed it "the novel that predicted the pandemic"

Azoulay has also written a series of short stories entitled "Minor Writers of the Entropic Age". These stories include "The Invention of H. P. Lovecraft", published in ''Flapperhouse'' Magazine, "The Bard of Hastings" published in ''The Cost of Paper'' and "Permaculture", which won second prize in the 2016 '' Zoetrope: All-Story'' short fiction contest.
Also included in this series is "Jacob Wallenstein, Notes for a Future Biography", a work of fiction regarding a "forgotten" Israeli science fiction novelist and his 1,000 page magnum opus. In 2013 Azoulay submitted this story to ''Tablet'' magazine, claiming that it was a true account of the nonexistent writer's life and work. An editor at the magazine was initially excited by the story, but eventually discovered that it was a hoax, though he decided to publish the story anyway, together with a forward explaining his discovery of the hoax.

Other short works by Azoulay have appeared in ''The Molotov Cocktail'' and ''McSweeney's Internet Tendency''.

Translations

Azoulay also works as a Hebrew to English translator, translating non-fiction, children's literature, and plays, including works by playwright Hanoch Levin.Job and Jesus Combine to Overcome
- ''New York Times'' review of 2006 production of Hanoch Levin's ''Job's Passion'' translated by Azoulay

References

External links

Shay K. Azoulay
- official website.
Shay Azoulay
on the Israeli Dramatists Website.
Shay Azoulay
on ''The Short Story Project''.

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1979 births
Living people
Israeli Jews
Israeli novelists
Israeli male dramatists and playwrights
Translators from Hebrew
Literary forgeries
City College of New York alumni