Aharon Appelfeld

(1932- )

Aharon Appelfeld was born in Czernowitz, Rumania, and deported to a concentration camp at the age of eight. He escaped and spent three years hiding in the Ukraine before joining the Russian army. A post-war refugee, he made his way to Italy and immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1946. He currently resides in Jerusalem.

Appelfeld, a Hebrew University graduate, is now a professor of Hebrew Literature at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He began publishing poetry in 1959. He writes novels, short stories and essays and his work has been translated to a number of languages.

Appelfeld's work is recognized worldwide as among the most profound literary explorations of the Holocaust, and has met with international critical and popular acclaim.
Appelfeld has received the Israel Prize.

Books Published in Hebrew
Smoke (stories), Achshav, 1962 [Ashan]
In the Fertile Valley (stories), Schocken, 1963 [Ba-Gai Ha-Poreh]
Frost on the Land (stories), Massada, 1965 [Kfor Al Ha-Aretz]
On the Ground Floor (stories), Daga, 1968 [Be-Komat Ha-Karka]
Pillars of the River (stories), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1971 [Adanei Ha-Nahar]
The Skin and the Gown (novel), Am Oved, 1971 [Ha-Or Ve-Ha-Kutonet]
As an Apple of His Eye (novella), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1973 [Ke-Ishon Ha-Ayin]
A Hundred Witnesses (stories selection), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1975 [Ke-Meah Edim]
Years and Hours (novellas), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1975 [Shanim Ve-Shaot]
The Age of Wonders (novel), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1978 [Tor Ha-Plaot]
First Person Essays (essays), WZO, 1979 [Masot Be-Guf Rishon]
Badenheim 1939 (novel), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1979 [Badenheim Ir Nofesh]
Searing Light (novel), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1980 [Makot Ha-Or]
The Shirt and the Stripes (novella), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1983 [Ha-Kutonet Ve-Ha-Pasim]
Tzili: The Story of a Life (novel), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1983 [Tzili:Sipur Haim]
At One and the Same Time (novel), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1985 [Be-Et U-Be-Ona Ahat]
Tongue of Fire, Keter, 1988 [Ritzpat Esh]
Katerina (novel), Keter, 1989 [Katerina]
The Railway (novel), Keter, 1991 [Mesilot Ha-Shahar]
Laish, Keter, 1994 [Laish]
Lost, Keter, 1995 [Timion]
Until the Dawn's Light, Keter, 1995 [Ad She-Ya'ale Amud Ha-Shahar]
The Ice Mine, Keter, 1997 [Michreh Ha-Kerah]
All That I Have Loved, Keter, 1999 [Col Asher Ahavti]
The Story of a Life, Keter, 1999 [Sipur Haim]

Books in Translation
To the Land of the Reeds (also published as To the Land of the Cattails)
Danish:
Copenhagen, Centrum, 1990
English:
Paperback: New York, Weidenfeld & Nicolson,1986
Tel Aviv, Steimatzky, 1987
London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987
London Quartet, 1989
London, Quartet Books/ Encounters, 1994
New York, Grove Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994
French:
Paris, Belfond, 1992

Baadenhaim 1939
Czech:
Prague, Vlasta Brtnikova, 1997
Dutch:
Amsterdam, De Arbeiderspers, 1983
English:
Boston, Godine, 1980/90/99
London, Dent, 1981
Boston, G.K. Hall & Co., 1981
New York, Pocket Books/ Washington, Square Press, 1981
New York, Quartet Books/Encounters, 1997
French:
Paris, Belfond, 1986
Paris, UGE, 1994
German:
Berlin, Ullstein, 1982
Italian:
Milan, Mondadori, 1981
Japanese:
Tokyo, Misuzu Shobo, 1996
Norwegian:
Oslo, Cappelen, 1996
Romanian:
Bucharest, Univers, 1988
Serbo-Croatian:
Gornji Milanovac, Decje Novine, 1989

Beyond despair
English:
New York, Fromm International, 1993

As an Apple of His Eye
Spanish:
Jerusalem, La Semana, 1976

The Immortal Bartfuss
English:
London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988
New York, Perennial Library, 1988
New York, Grove Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994
French:
Paris, Gallimard, 1993
German:
Hamburg, Hoffmann & Campe, 1991
Reinbek bei Hamburg, Rowohlt, 1995
Japanese:
Tokyo, Misuzu Shobo, 1996

For Every Sin
Dutch:
Hague, Bzztoh, 1992
English:
New York, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989
Toronto, General Publishing, 1989
New York, Grove Press, 1989
New York, Vintage International, 1990
German:
Hamburg, Hoffmann und Campe, 1993
paperback: Hamburg, Rowohlt, 1996

Katerina
English:
New York, Random House, 1992
New York, Norton, 1994
London, Quartet, 1995
French: Paris, Gallimard, 1996
Norwegian: Oslo, Cappelen, 1994
Italian:
Milan, Feltrinelli, 1994

The Retreat
Italian:
Milan, Mondadori, 1985
English:
New York, Dutton, 1984
London, Quartet Books, 1985
Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1985
New York, Schocken 1998
Paperback: Toronto, Random House, 1998

In the Wilderness
English:
Jerusalem, Ah'shav, 1965

Age of Wonders
English:
Boston, Godine,1981
Toronto, Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1982
New York, Washington Square Press, 1983
London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987
Paperback: Boston, Godine,1990
French:
Paris, Belfond, 1985
Norwegian:
Oslo, Gyldendal, 1983
German:
Berlin, Ullstein, 1984
Russian:
Jerusalem, Biblioteka Aliia, 1984
Spanish:
Jerusalem, La Semana, 1980
Swedish:
Stockholm, Atlantis, 1986

The healer
English:
New York, Grove Weidenfeld, 1990
London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1990
London, Quartet Books/Encounters, 1992
New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994

The Iron Tracks
English:
New York, Schocken/Random House, 1998
Toronto, Random House, 1998
German:
Berlin, Alexander Fest, 1999

Tzili: The Story of a Life
Dutch:
Amsterdam, Sijthoff, 1984
English:
New York, Dutton, 1983
Harmondworth, Penguin, 1984
New York, Grove Press, 1996
French:
Paris, Belfond, 1989
German:
Hamburg, Hoffmann & Campe, 1989
Paperback: Hamburg, Rowohlt, 1991

Unto the Soul
English:
New York, Random House, 1994
London, Quartet, 1996
New York, Schoken, 1998
Paperback: Toronto, Random House, 1998

Lost (also published as The Conversation )
English:
New York, Schocken, 1998/2000 (paperback)

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