Jessica Cohen (; born 1973) is a British-Israeli-American literary translator. Her translation of

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's 2014 novel ''

A Horse Walks Into a Bar ''A Horse Walks into a Bar'' () is a novel by Israeli author David Grossman. First published in Hebrew in 2014 by Ha'kibbutz Ha'meuchad as , the book was translated into English by Jessica Cohen, and published in the UK by Jonathan Cape in Novemb ...

'' was awarded the 2017

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Biography

Cohen was born in

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, England to Stanley Cohen and Ruth Kretzmer in 1973. She moved with her family to Israel at the age of seven and went on to study English literature at the

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. After moving to the United States with her husband in 1997, she studied Middle Eastern literature and languages at

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. Cohen has translated a number of Hebrew language books into English, including those by Nir Baram,

, Amir Gutfreund, , Ronit Matalon, Rutu Modan, Dorit Rabinyan,

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and Nava Semel. She currently resides in

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. At the awards ceremony for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize, Cohen announced that she would donate half of her share of the winnings to B’Tselem.

Translations

*''

To the End of the Land ''To the End of the Land'' () is a 2008 novel by Israeli writer David Grossman depicting the emotional strains that family members of soldiers experience when their loved ones are deployed into combat. Grossman began writing the novel in May 2003 ...

'', David Grossman (2010) *''Falling Out of Time'', David Grossman (2014) *''

A Horse Walks into a Bar ''A Horse Walks into a Bar'' () is a novel by Israeli author David Grossman. First published in Hebrew in 2014 by Ha'kibbutz Ha'meuchad as , the book was translated into English by Jessica Cohen, and published in the UK by Jonathan Cape in Novemb ...

'', David Grossman (2017) *'' All the Rivers'', Dorit Rabinyan (2017) *''At Night's End'', Nir Baram (2018) *''Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land'',

Amos Oz Amos Oz (; born Amos Klausner (); 4 May 1939 – 28 December 2018) was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onwards, Oz was a pro ...

(2018) *''And the Bride Closed the Door'', Ronit Matalon (2019) *''Further Up the Path'', Daniel Oz (2019) *''The Drive'', Yair Assulin (2020) *''Selected Plays, I, II, III'', Hanoch Levin (2020) *''Three'', Dror Mishani (2020) *''More Than I Love My Life'',

(2021) *''At Night's End,'' Nir Baram (2021) *''What Makes an Apple?'',

& Shira Hadad (2022) *''Conviction'', Dror Mishani (2022) *''World Shadow'', Nir Baram (2022) *''Professor Schiff's Guilt'', Agur Schiff (2023) *''Stockholm'', Noa Yedlin (2023) *''Every Wrinkle Has a Story'',

(2024) *''The Hebrew Teacher'', Maya Arad (2024) *''The Thinking Heart: On Israel and Palestine'',

(2024)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cohen, Jessica 1973 births Living people British emigrants to Israel Israeli Jews Hebrew–English translators Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Indiana University Bloomington alumni Israeli emigrants to the United States Literary translators Writers from Colchester Writers from Denver Writers from Jerusalem