Shimon Adaf (; born 1972) is an Israeli poet and author born in

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. Shimon, born to parents of Moroccan origin, now lives in

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Education and career

Shimon Adaf's first book of poetry, ''Icarus' Monologue'', won a prize from the Israeli Ministry of Education. In 1996–2000, Adaf studied at

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, simultaneously writing articles on literature, film and rock music for Israeli newspapers. In 2000–2005, he worked as a prose editor for Keter Publishing House. He is currently the chair person of the creative writing program at Ben Gurion University in Israel. In 2013, he won Israel's prestigious

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for his novel ''Mox Nox.'' He was interviewed on the Shaping Business Minds Through Art podcast in 2020.

Awards

* 2007 -

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* 2010 - Yehuda Amichai Award * 2012 -

* 2017 - Newman Prize * 2024 - Landau Prize for Poetry

Books

Poetry

* ''Icarus' Monologue'', 1997 * ''That Which I Thought Shadow Is the Real Body'', 2002 * ''Aviva-No'', 2009

Prose

(All titles given in approximate English translation) * ''One Mile and Two Days Before Sunset'', 2004 * ''The Buried Heart'', 2007 * ''Sunburnt Faces'', 2008 * ''Frost'', 2010 * ''Mox Nox'', 2011 * ''Undercities'', 2012 * ''The Wedding Gifts'', 2014 * ''Detective's Complaint'', 2015 * ''Shadrach'', 2017 * ''Rise and Call'', 2017 * ''I Loved Loving'', 2019

Non-fiction

* ''Art and War'', 2016 (with Lavie Tidhar) * ''I am others'', 2018

References

External links

* * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Adaf, Shimon 1972 births Living people Tel Aviv University alumni Israeli male poets Israeli literary critics Hebrew-language poets International Writing Program alumni 20th-century Israeli poets 21st-century Israeli poets 20th-century Israeli male writers 21st-century Israeli male writers People from Sderot Israeli people of Moroccan-Jewish descent