Aner Shalev

Aner Shalev was born at Kibbutz Kinneret in 1958. He studied mathematics and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and received a PhD in pure mathematics in 1988. In 1992, after a postdoctoral fellowship at Oxford, he joined the Einstein Institute of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he is now full professor. He served as chairman of the Institute from 1999 to 2001. Shalev has lectured at universities around the world, including Princeton, Yale, Oxford, Paris, Chicago, London, Cambridge and Berkeley. He was a guest speaker at the International Congress of Mathematics in Berlin in 1998, and has also lectured at a number of literary conferences.
Shalev has published two books of short stories and a novel. In 1985, he was awarded the Harry Harshon Prize for his first book of stories.


Books Published in Hebrew
Opus 1 (stories), Hakkibutz Hameuchad, 1988 [Opus Ehad]
Overtures (stories), Hakkibutz Hameuchad, 1996 [Sipurei Ptichot]
Dark Matter, (novel), Zmora Bitan, 2004 [Ha-Chomer Ha-Afel]

Books in Translation
Dark Matter
German: Berlin, Berlin Verlag, 2007; 2009
Italian: Rome, e/o, 2007
Czech: Prague, Albatros, 2009

Manuscripts available (for publishers only) in English translation
Dark Matter

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