Dan Benaya Seri |
| Dan Benaya Seri was born in Jerusalem in 1935, and has lived there his entire life. He spent many years working as a civil servant for the Ministry of Agriculture. Seri started writing relatively late in an attempt, as he puts it, to bring back the people he loved, especially his father who was killed during the 1948 War of Independence, when Seri was 11. Seri has written three novels and a number of short stories and novellas. His novella, The Thousand Wives of Naftali Siman-Tov, has been adapted for the screen. Seri writes about the world of Sephardic Jews in Jerusalem. Through the lives of his protagonists, he creates an autonomous society controlled by a perverse logic of its own. Seri was awarded the Brenner Prize 2009 for Lifetime Achievement. |
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Books Published in Hebrew |
| Grandma Sultana`s Salted Biscuits (novel), Tcherikover, 1980; Keter, 1988 [Ugiyot Ha-Melah Shel Savta Sultana] |
| Birds of the Shade (novellas), Keter, 1987 [Tziporei Tzel] |
| Mishael (novel), Keter, 1992 [Mishael] |
| Dead Fish in Jaffa (2 novellas), Keter, 2003 [Dagim Metim Be-Yaffo] |
| A Bukharan Wedding (novel), Keter, 2006 [Chatuna Bucharit] |
| A Man Returns Home (novel), Keter, 2009 [Adam Shav El Beito] |
Books in Translation |
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Grandma Sultana`s Salted Biscuits Italian: Florence, Giuntina, 2004 Individual stories have been published in: English, French, and Russian. Manuscripts available (for publishers only) in English translation Grandma Sultana`s Salted Biscuits Last updated: 4.1.2010 |
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