TOUCHE GAFLA, Ofir

Ofir TOUCHE GAFLA
2010 Resident
  • Asia
  • Western Asia
  • Israel
Hebrew

Ofir TOUCHE GAFLA has written scripts for animation, a rock opera, and children’s stories. His first book [End’s World ] won the 2004 Geffen Award for Best SF/Fantasy, and the Kugel Award for Hebrew Literature. Since then he has published [The Cataract in the Mind’s Eye] (2005), [Behind the Fog] (2007), and [The Day the Music Died] (2010). His stories have appeared in the anthologies A Full Stomach, When Madeleine Stowe is Crying, News From the Underworld, and Icon Book, in journals such as Nails, Time-Out and Thesis, and on-line at Ynet. He teaches creative writing at Sam Spiegel School of Cinema in Jerusalem. His participation is made possible by the Fulbright Foundation of Israel.

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  • In addition to becoming the Berlin LitFest’s first curator-in-residence, Helon Habila has also just received Kaduna Books and Art Festival’s KabaFest Lifetime Achievement Award, celebrating his "exceptional writing and significant contributions to the development of literature globally."

  • Congratulations to Enah Johnscott, whose film Half Heaven won three awards at the Cameroon International Film Festival—best film, best director, and best cinematographer.

  • 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.

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