Sayed Kashua

Sayed Kashua was born in the Arab town of Tira in 1975. Today he lives in the Beit Tsafafa suburb of Jerusalem. Between 1990-1993, he studied at the High School for Sciences and Arts in Jerusalem and later philosophy and sociology at the Hebrew University. Since 1996, he has written for the Jerusalem weekly Kol Ha`Ir and the daily newpaper Ha`aretz on general culture, television and restaurants. He received the Prime Minister`s Prize in 2004.

Books Published in Hebrew
Dancing Arabs (novel), Modan, 2002 [Aravim Rokdim]
Let It Be Mourning, Keter, 2004 [Va-Ih`I Boker]

Books in Translation
Dancing Arabs
German: Berlin, Berlin Verlag, 2002
French: Paris, Belfond, 2003; Paris, Ed. 10/18, 2006
Italian: Milano, U.Guanda, 2003; 2007
Dutch: Amsterdam, Vassallucci, forthcoming
English: New York, Grove/ Atlantic, 2004
Polish: Sejny, Fundacja Pogranicze, 2005

Let It Be Morning
Italian: Milano, Guanda, 2005
German: Berlin, Berlin Verlag, 2005
French: Paris, Editions de L`Olivier, 2006; Paris, Points, 2008
English: New York, Grove/Atlantic, 2006; London, Atlantic Books, 2007

Last updated: 10.11.2008


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