Sami BERDUGO

Sami BERDUGO
2004 Resident
  • Asia
  • Western Asia
  • Israel
Hebrew

Sami BERDUGO (b. 1970, Israel) has published two award-winning books. Black Girl won the 1999 Debut Book prize from Israel's Ministry of Science, Culture, and Sport and his novel, And Say It To the Wind (2002), received the Yaacov Shabtai, the Peter Shyipert, and the Bernstein prizes. Orphans , comprised of two novellas and one short story, is forthcoming this year. He is participating courtesy of the US-Israel Education Foundation.

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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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