Ehud Havazelet (; July 13, 1955 – November 5, 2015) was an American novelist and short story writer. Ehud Havazelet was born in

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. His father, Meir Havazelet, a

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and emeritus professor at

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, emigrated to the United States in 1957. He graduated from

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in 1977, and received an M.F.A at the

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Writers Workshop in 1984. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and

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from 1984 to 1989. He taught creative writing at

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from 1989 to 1999. He began teaching at the

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in 1999 and held the position of Professor of Creative Writing at the time of his death in 2015.

Honors

Pushcart Prize The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are ...

, 1988 *

California Book Award The Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California is a non-profit, non-partisan educational organization based in Northern California. Founded in 1903, it is the oldest and largest public affairs forum in the United States. Membership is open to ...

, 1988 * Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, 1988 * Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship, 1990 * Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship, 1994 *

Whiting Award The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, ...

, 1999 *

Oregon Book Award The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually by the Portland, Oregon, United States–based organization Literary Arts, Inc. to honor the "state’s finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, graphic literatur ...

for fiction, 1999 * Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, 2000 *

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, 2001 *

Edward Lewis Wallant Award The Edward Lewis Wallant Award is an annual literary award presented to a writer whose fiction is considered to have significance for American Jews. It was established in 1962 at the University of Hartford The University of Hartford (UHart) i ...

, 2007 *

for fiction, 2008 *University of Oregon Fund for Faculty Excellence Award, 2008 *

The Best American Short Stories ''The Best American Short Stories'' is a yearly anthology that's part of ''The Best American Series'' published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Since 1915, the ''BASS'' has anthologized more than 2,000 short stories, including works by some of the ...

, 2011

Works

Books

*''What Is It Then Between Us?'' (short stories), Scribner, 1988. *''Like Never Before,'' (short stories), Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998. *''Bearing the Body'', (novel), Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007.

Anthologies

* ** (Originally published in TriQuarterly)

Short stories

References

External links

Jewish Literary Review interview with Ehud HavazeletReview of ''Bearing The Body'' on Jewish Literary ReviewPodcast on Fogged Clarity with Ehud Havazelet discussing "Gurov in Manhattan"Profile at The Whiting Foundation
* ttp://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2015/11/ehud_havazelet_oregon_book_awa.html/ Tribute to Ehud Havazelet on Oregonlive {{DEFAULTSORT:Havazelet, Ehud 1955 births American women novelists American women short story writers Jewish American novelists Jewish American short story writers Jewish women writers Columbia University alumni Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni Writers from Oregon Stanford University Department of English faculty Oregon State University faculty University of Oregon faculty Israeli emigrants to the United States 2015 deaths Writers from Jerusalem Jews from Oregon 21st-century American Jews Stegner Fellows