David Grossman

Born in Jerusalem in 1954, David Grossman is the author of nine internationally acclaimed novels, three non-fictional works and a collection of short stories, as well as a series of books and an opera for children, and a play. His bibliography includes the novels Be my Knife, To the End of the Land and Falling Out of Time, and the book of essays Writing in the Dark. His work has been featured in The New Yorker and translated into over 30 languages.

Grossman has received numerous international literary prizes, including the Prix Eliaette Von Karajan, the Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation, the Buxtehuder Bulle, the Sapir Prize, the Brenner, the Ischia International Award for Journalism, the EMET Award, the Geschwister Scholl Prize, the Albatross Prize awarded by the Günter Grass Foundation and the Prix Médicis. He has been presented with the award Chevalier de l’Ordre des Artes et des Lettres and, in 2013, the Prix du Meilleur Roman d’Editions Points for Une femme fuyant l’annonce and prize for the best career of the Calcari Foundation.

His pacifism occupies an important part of both his life and his work. In 2006 he was awarded the Premio per la Pace e l’Azione Umanitaria, in 2007 he received the Onorificenza della Stella Solidarita Italiana and, in 2010, the Peace Prize of the German Booksellers Association.