Esther Bendahan Cohen (born 1964 in
Tétouan
Tétouan (, or ) is a city in northern Morocco. It lies along the Martil Valley and is one of the two major ports of Morocco on the Mediterranean Sea, a few miles south of the Strait of Gibraltar, and about E.S.E. of Tangier. In the 2014 Morocc ...
) is a
Moroccan-
Spanish
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writer.
Her
Moroccan Jewish
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family moved to Madrid when she was a child, where she studied Psychology and French Literature. She is the director of the television program ''Shalom'' (
RTVE
The Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española (; ), known as Radiotelevisión Española (''Spanish Radio and Television'', RTVE), is the Spanish national public Broadcasting, television and radio broadcaster. It is a state-owned enterprise f ...
) and the organizer of
Centro Sefarad-Israel.
Books
*''Soñar con Hispania'' (''Dreaming of Hispania'') (with Ester Benari), Ediciones Tantín, 2002
*''La sombra y el mar'' (''Shadow and Sea''), Morales del Coso, 2003
*''Deshojando alcachofas'' (''Putting the Leaves off Some Artichokes''), Seix Barral, 2005
*''Déjalo, ya volveremos'' (''Let It Be, We'll Come Back Some Day''), Seix Barral, 2006, where she tells her childhood and the disintegration of Moroccan Jewish communities.
*''La cara de Marte'' (''Mars' Face''), Algaida, 2007.
*''El secreto de la reina persa'' (''Persian Queen's Secret''), La Esfera de los Libros, 2009
*''Tratado del alma gemela'', Ediciones del Viento, 2012. Award: XXII
Premio de Narrativa Gonzalo Torrente Ballester.
Prizes
*Premio Fnac, Deshojando alcachofas.
*
Tigre Juan Award
The Tigre Juan Award () is a Spanish literary award created in 1977 in honor of the novel ''Tigre Juan. El curandero de su honra'' by Ramón Pérez de Ayala. It is awarded to the best narrative work in Spanish published in the preceding year. It ha ...
, 2006 with ''La cara de Marte''
*
Premio Torrente Ballester
The Premio Torrente Ballester is a Spanish literary award, given annually by the for an unpublished narrative work in Castilian or Galician. It was established in 1989 and is named after the writer Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. Since 2016, the aw ...
, 2011, El tratado del alma gemela.
Translations
*''Au nom de l'Autre: Réflexions sur l'antisémitisme qui vient '',
Alain Finkielkraut
Alain Luc Finkielkraut (; ; born 30 June 1949) is a French essayist, radio producer, and public intellectual. Since 1986, he has been the host of ''Répliques'', a talk show broadcast weekly on France Culture. He was elected a Fellow of the Ac ...
, Seix Barral, 2005 (with Adolfo García Ortega).
References
External links
Seix Barral
''Déjalo, ya volveremos'', Chapter 1
(PDF)
*http://elpais.com/elpais/2013/11/20/opinion/1384972577_665223.html
1964 births
21st-century Moroccan women writers
Living people
Jews and Judaism in Tétouan
People from Tétouan
Jewish women writers
Moroccan emigrants to Spain
20th-century Moroccan Jews
21st-century Spanish women writers
21st-century Spanish Jews
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