Shimon ADAF

Shimon ADAF
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Shimon ADAF (b. 1972, Ashkelon) is a founding member of Ev, a literary group that seeks to introduce into Hebrew literature a new poetical language merging ancient and modern Hebrew. He received the Israeli Ministry of Education's Award in 1996 for his first collection of poems, The Monologue of Icarus (Gvanim, 1997). His second collection, That Which I Thought Shadow is the Real Body , was published in 2002 by Keter, the publishing house in which he now works as editor. His work has been translated into English, Dutch, and Italian. He has done translations of John Cage, Mallarmé, De Chirico and Blanchot, as well as contributing weekly to a leading Israeli paper on subjects such as cinema, literature, and music. In 1994 he joined the rock group Ha'atzula ("Aristocracy") as a songwriter and acoustic guitar player. They released their first album, Need , in 1996 and he has since collaborated with some of Israel's most prominent rock artists. He is participating courtesy of the US-Israel Educational Foundation.

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  • We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.

  • Our congratulations to 1986 Fall Residency writer Kwame Dawes, who has been named the new poet laureate of Jamaica.

  • Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Croft and Aron Aji, who are among those serving as judges for the National Book Awards this year, in their case in the category of translated literature.

  • Ranjit Hoskote’s speech at the 2024 Goa Literary Festival addresses the current situation in Gaza.

  • In NY Times, Bina Shah worries about the state of Pakistani—and American—democracy.

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