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David Grossman

October 27, 2023

This article is about the Israeli author. For other people with the same name, see David Grossman (disambiguation).

David Grossman (Hebrew: דויד גרוסמן; born January 25, 1954) is an Israeli author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

David Grossman
Native name
דויד גרוסמן
Born (1954-01-25) January 25, 1954 (age 69)
Jerusalem, Israel
OccupationWriter
CitizenshipIsraeli
Alma materThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Notable awards
SpouseMichal Grossman
Children3

In 2018, he was awarded the Israel Prize for literature.

Biography edit

David Grossman was born in Jerusalem. He is the elder of two brothers. His mother, Michaella, was born in Mandatory Palestine; his father, Yitzhak, emigrated from Dynów in Poland with his widowed mother at the age of nine. His mother's family was Labor Zionist and poor. His grandfather paved roads in the Galilee and supplemented his income by buying and selling rugs. His maternal grandmother, a manicurist, left Poland after police harassment. Accompanied by her son and daughter, she immigrated to Palestine and worked as a maid in wealthy neighborhoods.

Grossman's father was a bus driver, then a librarian. Among the literature he brought home for his son to read were the stories of Sholem Aleichem.[1] At age 9, Grossman won a national competition on knowledge of Sholem Aleichem. He worked as a child actor for the national radio and continued working for the Israel Broadcasting Authority for nearly 25 years.[2]

In 1971, Grossman served in the IDF military intelligence corps. He was in the army when the Yom Kippur War broke out in 1973, but saw no action.[1]

Grossman studied philosophy and theater at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Grossman lives in Mevasseret Zion on the outskirts of Jerusalem. He is married to Michal Grossman, a child psychologist. They had three children, Yonatan, Ruthi, and Uri. Uri was a tank-commander in the Israel Defense Forces, and was killed in action on the last day of the 2006 Lebanon War.[3] Uri's life was later celebrated in Grossman's book Falling Out of Time.

Radio career edit

After university, Grossman became an anchor on Kol Yisrael, Israel's national broadcasting service. In 1988 he was sacked for refusing to bury the news that the Palestinian leadership had declared its own state and conceded Israel's right to exist.[1]

Literary career edit

He addressed the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in his 2008 novel, To the End of the Land. Since that book's publication he has written a children's book, an opera for children and several poems.[1] His 2014 book, Falling Out of Time, deals with the grief of parents in the aftermath of their children's death.[4] In 2017, he was awarded the Man Booker International Prize in conjunction with his frequent collaborator and translator, Jessica Cohen, for his novel A Horse Walks Into a Bar.[5]

Political activism edit

 
David Grossman, Leipzig

Grossman is an outspoken left-wing peace activist.[1] He has been described by The Economist as epitomising Israel's left-leaning cultural elite.[6]

Initially supportive of Israel's action during the 2006 Lebanon War on the grounds of self-defense, on August 10, 2006, he and fellow authors Amos Oz and A.B. Yehoshua held a press conference at which they strongly urged the government to agree to a ceasefire that would create the basis for a negotiated solution, saying: "We had a right to go to war. But things got complicated. ... I believe that there is more than one course of action available."[1]

Two days later, Grossman's 20-year-old son Uri, a Staff Sergeant in the 401st Armored Brigade, was killed in southern Lebanon when his tank was hit by an anti-tank missile shortly before the ceasefire came into effect.[7] Grossman explained that the death of his son did not change his opposition to Israel's policy towards the Palestinians.[1] Although Grossman had carefully avoided writing about politics, in his stories, if not his journalism, the death of his son prompted him to deal with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in greater detail. This appeared in his 2008 book To The End of the Land.[1]

Two months after his son's death, Grossman addressed a crowd of 100,000 Israelis who had gathered to mark the anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. He denounced Ehud Olmert's government for a failure of leadership and he argued that reaching out to the Palestinians was the best hope for progress in the region: "Of course I am grieving, but my pain is greater than my anger. I am in pain for this country and for what you [Olmert] and your friends are doing to it."[1]

About his personal link to the war, Grossman said: "There were people who stereotyped me, who considered me this naive leftist who would never send his own children into the army, who didn't know what life was made of. I think those people were forced to realise that you can be very critical of Israel and yet still be an integral part of it; I speak as a reservist in the Israeli army myself.[1]

In 2010 Grossman, his wife, and her family attended demonstrations against the spread of Israeli settlements. While attending weekly demonstrations in Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem against Jewish settlers taking over houses in Palestinian neighbourhoods, he was assaulted by police. When asked by a reporter for The Guardian about how a renowned writer could be beaten, he replied: "I don't know if they know me at all."[1]

Awards and recognition edit

In 2015, Grossman withdrew his candidacy for the Israel Prize for Literature after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tried to remove two of the judging panel who he claimed were "anti-Zionist".[6] He was awarded the prize in 2018.[8]

Works translated into English edit

Fiction edit

  • Duel [דו קרב / Du-krav, 1982]. London: Bloomsbury, 1998, ISBN 0-7475-4092-6
  • The Smile of the Lamb [חיוך הגדי / Hiyukh ha-gedi: roman, 1983]. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990, ISBN 0-374-26639-5
  • See Under: Love [עיין ערך: אהבה / Ayen erekh—-ahavah: roman, 1986]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1989, ISBN 0-374-25731-0
  • The Book of Intimate Grammar [ספר הדקדוק הפנימי / Sefer ha-dikduk ha-penimi: roman, 1991]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1994, ISBN 0-374-11547-8
  • The Zigzag Kid [יש ילדים זיג זג / Yesh yeladim zigzag, 1994]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1997, ISBN 0-374-52563-3 – won two prizes in Italy: the Premio Mondello in 1996, and the Premio Grinzane Cavour in 1997.
  • Be My Knife [שתהיי לי הסכין / She-tihyi li ha-sakin, 1998]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001, ISBN 0-374-29977-3
  • Someone to Run With [מישהו לרוץ איתו / Mishehu laruts ito, 2000]. London: Bloomsbury, 2003, ISBN 0-7475-6207-5
  • Her Body Knows: two novellas [בגוף אני מבינה / Ba-guf ani mevinah: tsemed novelot, 2003]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005, ISBN 0-374-17557-8
  • To the End of the Land [אישה בורחת מבשורה / Isha Borahat MiBesora, 2008]. Jessica Cohen, trans. Knopf, 2010, ISBN 0-307-59297-9
  • Falling Out of Time. Jessica Cohen, trans. Knopf, 2014, ISBN 0-385-35013-9
  • A Horse Walks Into a Bar: A Novel. [סוס אחד נכנס לְבָּר / Soos Echad Nechnas L'bar]. Jessica Cohen, trans. Knopf, 2017, ISBN 0-451-49397-4[16]
  • More Than I Love My Life, 2019, אתי החיים משחק הרבה

Nonfiction edit

  • The Yellow Wind [הזמן הצהוב / Ha-Zeman ha-tsahov, 1987]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1988, ISBN 0-374-29345-7
  • Sleeping on a Wire: Conversations with Palestinians in Israel [נוכחים נפקדים / Nokhehim Nifkadim, 1992]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1993, ISBN 0-374-17788-0
  • Death as a Way of Life: Israel Ten Years after Oslo [מוות כדרך חיים / Mavet ke-derech khayyim, 2003]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003, ISBN 0-374-10211-2
  • Lion’s honey : the myth of Samson [דבש אריות / Dvash arayiot, 2005]. Edinburgh; New York: Canongate, 2006, ISBN 1-84195-656-2
  • Writing in the Dark: Essays on Literature and Politics New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008, ISBN 978-0-312-42860-0

Films edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Cooke, Rachel (August 29, 2010). "David Grossman: 'I cannot afford the luxury of despair'". The Guardian. Retrieved August 29, 2010.
  2. ^ George Packer (27 September 2010). "The Unconsoled". The New Yorker.
  3. ^ Grossman, David (2006-08-19). "David Grossman: Uri, my dear son". the Guardian.
  4. ^ "David Grossman: Falling Out Of Time (Jonathan Cape)". Herald Scotland.
  5. ^ Shea, Christopher (14 June 2017). "A Horse Walks Into a Bar' Wins Man Booker International Prize". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  6. ^ a b "Israel's artists are celebrated abroad; less so at home". The Economist. 23 June 2017. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
  7. ^ http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1154525864908[permanent dead link]
  8. ^ Zur, Yarden (February 12, 2018). "Author David Grossman Wins the 2018 Israel Prize for Literature". Haaretz. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
  9. ^ . Archived from the original on 2008-10-17. Retrieved 2008-12-04.
  10. ^ (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 17, 2007.
  11. ^ "Past Winners - Fiction". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-20.
  12. ^ Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2011 2012-02-25 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ . www.slu.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-08-23. Retrieved 2016-07-25.
  14. ^ "Inaugural RSL International Writers Announced". Royal Society of Literature. November 30, 2021. Retrieved December 25, 2021.
  15. ^ "Erasmusprijswinnaars". Stichting Praemium Erasmianum (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  16. ^ Grossman, David (2017). A Horse Walks into a Bar. ISBN 978-0451493972.
  17. ^ Fishbein, Einat (2006-07-18). "Someone to run with". ynet.
  18. ^ Nozz (13 June 2012). "Hadikduk HaPnimi". IMDb.
  19. ^ Burr, Ty (24 April 2014). "Watching the (13-year-old) detective in 'The Zigzag Kid'". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 22 June 2017.

External links edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to David Grossman.
  • Robert H. Cohn (October 7, 2015). . St. Louis Jewish Light. Archived from the original on November 10, 2015. Retrieved July 25, 2016.
  • David Grossman: "Writing against the Mechanism of Retaliation", Qantara.de, 13-10-2010.
  • Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature, (bibliography with brief biography). Retrieved January 12, 2005.
  • Eli ESHED, "Is Naava Home? Naava's Not Home" נאווה בבית? נאווה לא בבית] (Hebrew). Retrieved January 12, 2005.
  • Grossman's speech at the Rabin Memorial November 4, 2006 [1] Retrieved November 20, 2006.
  • internationales literaturfestival berlin
  • Jonathan Shainin (Fall 2007). "David Grossman, The Art of Fiction No. 194". The Paris Review. Fall 2007 (182).
  • David Grossman at IMDb
  • David Grossman at Library of Congress, with 51 library catalogue records
  • Appearances on C-SPAN
  • Johanna Baum, "A Literary Analysis of Tramatic Neurosis in Israeli Society: David Grossman's See Under: Love", Other Voices, vol. 2.1.

October 27, 2023
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This article is about the Israeli author For other people with the same name see David Grossman disambiguation David Grossman Hebrew דויד גרוסמן born January 25 1954 is an Israeli author His books have been translated into more than 30 languages David GrossmanNative nameדויד גרוסמןBorn 1954 01 25 January 25 1954 age 69 Jerusalem IsraelOccupationWriterCitizenshipIsraeliAlma materThe Hebrew University of JerusalemNotable awards1985 Bernstein Prize 1993 Bernstein Prize 2001 Sapir Prize 2004 JQ Wingate Prize 2004 Bialik Prize 2007 Emet Prize 2007 Ischia International Journalism Award 2008 Geschwister Scholl Preis 2010 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 2011 JQ Wingate Prize 2015 St Louis Literary Award2017 Man Booker International Prize 2018 Israel Prize 2022 Erasmus PrizeSpouseMichal GrossmanChildren3In 2018 he was awarded the Israel Prize for literature Contents 1 Biography 2 Radio career 3 Literary career 4 Political activism 5 Awards and recognition 6 Works translated into English 6 1 Fiction 6 2 Nonfiction 7 Films 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksBiography editDavid Grossman was born in Jerusalem He is the elder of two brothers His mother Michaella was born in Mandatory Palestine his father Yitzhak emigrated from Dynow in Poland with his widowed mother at the age of nine His mother s family was Labor Zionist and poor His grandfather paved roads in the Galilee and supplemented his income by buying and selling rugs His maternal grandmother a manicurist left Poland after police harassment Accompanied by her son and daughter she immigrated to Palestine and worked as a maid in wealthy neighborhoods Grossman s father was a bus driver then a librarian Among the literature he brought home for his son to read were the stories of Sholem Aleichem 1 At age 9 Grossman won a national competition on knowledge of Sholem Aleichem He worked as a child actor for the national radio and continued working for the Israel Broadcasting Authority for nearly 25 years 2 In 1971 Grossman served in the IDF military intelligence corps He was in the army when the Yom Kippur War broke out in 1973 but saw no action 1 Grossman studied philosophy and theater at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Grossman lives in Mevasseret Zion on the outskirts of Jerusalem He is married to Michal Grossman a child psychologist They had three children Yonatan Ruthi and Uri Uri was a tank commander in the Israel Defense Forces and was killed in action on the last day of the 2006 Lebanon War 3 Uri s life was later celebrated in Grossman s book Falling Out of Time Radio career editAfter university Grossman became an anchor on Kol Yisrael Israel s national broadcasting service In 1988 he was sacked for refusing to bury the news that the Palestinian leadership had declared its own state and conceded Israel s right to exist 1 Literary career editHe addressed the Israeli Palestinian conflict in his 2008 novel To the End of the Land Since that book s publication he has written a children s book an opera for children and several poems 1 His 2014 book Falling Out of Time deals with the grief of parents in the aftermath of their children s death 4 In 2017 he was awarded the Man Booker International Prize in conjunction with his frequent collaborator and translator Jessica Cohen for his novel A Horse Walks Into a Bar 5 Political activism edit nbsp David Grossman LeipzigGrossman is an outspoken left wing peace activist 1 He has been described by The Economist as epitomising Israel s left leaning cultural elite 6 Initially supportive of Israel s action during the 2006 Lebanon War on the grounds of self defense on August 10 2006 he and fellow authors Amos Oz and A B Yehoshua held a press conference at which they strongly urged the government to agree to a ceasefire that would create the basis for a negotiated solution saying We had a right to go to war But things got complicated I believe that there is more than one course of action available 1 Two days later Grossman s 20 year old son Uri a Staff Sergeant in the 401st Armored Brigade was killed in southern Lebanon when his tank was hit by an anti tank missile shortly before the ceasefire came into effect 7 Grossman explained that the death of his son did not change his opposition to Israel s policy towards the Palestinians 1 Although Grossman had carefully avoided writing about politics in his stories if not his journalism the death of his son prompted him to deal with the Israeli Palestinian conflict in greater detail This appeared in his 2008 book To The End of the Land 1 Two months after his son s death Grossman addressed a crowd of 100 000 Israelis who had gathered to mark the anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 He denounced Ehud Olmert s government for a failure of leadership and he argued that reaching out to the Palestinians was the best hope for progress in the region Of course I am grieving but my pain is greater than my anger I am in pain for this country and for what you Olmert and your friends are doing to it 1 About his personal link to the war Grossman said There were people who stereotyped me who considered me this naive leftist who would never send his own children into the army who didn t know what life was made of I think those people were forced to realise that you can be very critical of Israel and yet still be an integral part of it I speak as a reservist in the Israeli army myself 1 In 2010 Grossman his wife and her family attended demonstrations against the spread of Israeli settlements While attending weekly demonstrations in Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem against Jewish settlers taking over houses in Palestinian neighbourhoods he was assaulted by police When asked by a reporter for The Guardian about how a renowned writer could be beaten he replied I don t know if they know me at all 1 Awards and recognition editIn 2015 Grossman withdrew his candidacy for the Israel Prize for Literature after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tried to remove two of the judging panel who he claimed were anti Zionist 6 He was awarded the prize in 2018 8 1984 Prime Minister s Prize for Creative Work 1985 Bernstein Prize original Hebrew novel category 1991 Nelly Sachs Prize 1993 Bernstein Prize original Hebrew novel category 2001 Sapir Prize for Someone to Run With 2004 JQ Wingate Prize fiction for Someone to Run With 2004 Italian prize Premio Flaiano 9 2004 Bialik Prize for literature with Haya Shenhav and Ephraim Sidon 10 2007 Emet Prize 2007 Ischia International Journalism Award 2007 honorary Doctor Honoris Causa by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Belgium 2008 Geschwister Scholl Preis 2010 Albatros Literaturpreis for To the End of the Land with German translator Anne Birch Hauer 2010 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 2010 National Jewish Book Award for To the End of the Land 11 2011 JQ Wingate Prize for To the End of the Land 12 2015 St Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates 13 2017 Man Booker International Prize for A Horse Walks into a Bar with translator Jessica Cohen 2018 Israel Prize 2021 Elected a Royal Society of Literature International Writer 14 2022 Winner of the Erasmus Prize 15 Works translated into English editFiction edit Duel דו קרב Du krav 1982 London Bloomsbury 1998 ISBN 0 7475 4092 6 The Smile of the Lamb חיוך הגדי Hiyukh ha gedi roman 1983 New York Farrar Straus and Giroux 1990 ISBN 0 374 26639 5 See Under Love עיין ערך אהבה Ayen erekh ahavah roman 1986 New York Farrar Straus and Giroux 1989 ISBN 0 374 25731 0 The Book of Intimate Grammar ספר הדקדוק הפנימי Sefer ha dikduk ha penimi roman 1991 New York Farrar Straus and Giroux 1994 ISBN 0 374 11547 8 The Zigzag Kid יש ילדים זיג זג Yesh yeladim zigzag 1994 New York Farrar Straus and Giroux 1997 ISBN 0 374 52563 3 won two prizes in Italy the Premio Mondello in 1996 and the Premio Grinzane Cavour in 1997 Be My Knife שתהיי לי הסכין She tihyi li ha sakin 1998 New York Farrar Straus and Giroux 2001 ISBN 0 374 29977 3 Someone to Run With מישהו לרוץ איתו Mishehu laruts ito 2000 London Bloomsbury 2003 ISBN 0 7475 6207 5 Her Body Knows two novellas בגוף אני מבינה Ba guf ani mevinah tsemed novelot 2003 New York Farrar Straus and Giroux 2005 ISBN 0 374 17557 8 To the End of the Land אישה בורחת מבשורה Isha Borahat MiBesora 2008 Jessica Cohen trans Knopf 2010 ISBN 0 307 59297 9 Falling Out of Time Jessica Cohen trans Knopf 2014 ISBN 0 385 35013 9 A Horse Walks Into a Bar A Novel סוס אחד נכנס ל ב ר Soos Echad Nechnas L bar Jessica Cohen trans Knopf 2017 ISBN 0 451 49397 4 16 More Than I Love My Life 2019 אתי החיים משחק הרבהNonfiction edit The Yellow Wind הזמן הצהוב Ha Zeman ha tsahov 1987 New York Farrar Straus and Giroux 1988 ISBN 0 374 29345 7 Sleeping on a Wire Conversations with Palestinians in Israel נוכחים נפקדים Nokhehim Nifkadim 1992 New York Farrar Straus and Giroux 1993 ISBN 0 374 17788 0 Death as a Way of Life Israel Ten Years after Oslo מוות כדרך חיים Mavet ke derech khayyim 2003 New York Farrar Straus and Giroux 2003 ISBN 0 374 10211 2 Lion s honey the myth of Samson דבש אריות Dvash arayiot 2005 Edinburgh New York Canongate 2006 ISBN 1 84195 656 2 Writing in the Dark Essays on Literature and Politics New York Farrar Straus and Giroux 2008 ISBN 978 0 312 42860 0Films editThe Smile of the Lamb award winning film written and directed by Shimon Dotan based on the Grossman novel by the same name Someone to Run With directed by Oded Davidoff based on the Grossman novel by the same name 17 The Book of Intimate Grammar was the basis for an award winning film by Nir Bergman 18 The Zigzag Kid directed by Vincent Bal based on the Grossman novel by the same name 19 See also edit nbsp Novels portalIsraeli literatureReferences edit a b c d e f g h i j k Cooke Rachel August 29 2010 David Grossman I cannot afford the luxury of despair The Guardian Retrieved August 29 2010 George Packer 27 September 2010 The Unconsoled The New Yorker Grossman David 2006 08 19 David Grossman Uri my dear son the Guardian David Grossman Falling Out Of Time Jonathan Cape Herald Scotland Shea Christopher 14 June 2017 A Horse Walks Into a Bar Wins Man Booker International Prize The New York Times Retrieved 16 June 2017 a b Israel s artists are celebrated abroad less so at home The Economist 23 June 2017 Retrieved 23 June 2017 http fr jpost com servlet Satellite pagename JPost JPArticle ShowFull amp cid 1154525864908 permanent dead link Zur Yarden February 12 2018 Author David Grossman Wins the 2018 Israel Prize for Literature Haaretz Retrieved February 12 2018 Premi Internazionali Flaiano Introduzione Archived from the original on 2008 10 17 Retrieved 2008 12 04 List of Bialik Prize recipients 1933 2004 in Hebrew Tel Aviv Municipality website PDF Archived from the original PDF on December 17 2007 Past Winners Fiction Jewish Book Council Retrieved 2020 01 20 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize 2011 Archived 2012 02 25 at the Wayback Machine Saint Louis Literary Award Saint Louis University www slu edu Archived from the original on 2016 08 23 Retrieved 2016 07 25 Inaugural RSL International Writers Announced Royal Society of Literature November 30 2021 Retrieved December 25 2021 Erasmusprijswinnaars Stichting Praemium Erasmianum in Dutch Retrieved 2022 03 03 Grossman David 2017 A Horse Walks into a Bar ISBN 978 0451493972 Fishbein Einat 2006 07 18 Someone to run with ynet Nozz 13 June 2012 Hadikduk HaPnimi IMDb Burr Ty 24 April 2014 Watching the 13 year old detective in The Zigzag Kid The Boston Globe Retrieved 22 June 2017 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to David Grossman Robert H Cohn October 7 2015 Acclaimed Israeli author wins St Louis Literary Award St Louis Jewish Light Archived from the original on November 10 2015 Retrieved July 25 2016 David Grossman Writing against the Mechanism of Retaliation Qantara de 13 10 2010 Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature David Grossman bibliography with brief biography Retrieved January 12 2005 Eli ESHED Is Naava Home Naava s Not Home נאווה בבית נאווה לא בבית Hebrew Retrieved January 12 2005 Grossman s speech at the Rabin Memorial November 4 2006 1 Retrieved November 20 2006 internationales literaturfestival berlin https web archive org web 20081007232013 http www literaturfestival com bios1 3 6 989 html Jonathan Shainin Fall 2007 David Grossman The Art of Fiction No 194 The Paris Review Fall 2007 182 David Grossman at IMDb David Grossman at Library of Congress with 51 library catalogue records Appearances on C SPAN Johanna Baum A Literary Analysis of Tramatic Neurosis in Israeli Society David Grossman s See Under Love Other Voices vol 2 1 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title David Grossman amp oldid 1167213919, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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