Sayed Kashua, a writer, journalist and screenwriter, was born in the Israeli Arab town of Tira in 1975. Between 1990-1993, he studied at the High School for Sciences and Arts in Jerusalem, and later philosophy and sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since 1996, he has written for the Jerusalem weekly Kol Ha’Ir and the daily Haaretz on culture and television; he has also written Arab Labor, a satiric sitcom, for Israel TV. At present, he writes a satirical column in Haaretz and teaches at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, having moved to the USA in 2014.
Kashua has been awarded the Grinzane Cavour Award for Debut Novel (Italy, 2004), the Prime Minister’s Prize (2005), the Lessing Prize for Critics (Germany, 2006), the Bernstein Prize (2011) and the Prix des Lecteurs du Var for Second Person Singular (France, 2012).
Books Published in Hebrew
Dancing Arabs (novel), Modan, 2002 [Aravim Rokdim]
Let It Be Morning (novel), Keter, 2004 [Va-Yehi Boker]
Second Person Singular (novel),Keter, 2010 [Guf Sheni Yachid]
Native (essays), Keter, 2015 [Ben Ha-Aretz]
Track Changes (novel), Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, 2017 [Akov Achar Shinuyim]
Books in Translation:
Dancing Arabs
German: Berlin, Berlin Verlag, 2002
French: Paris, Belfond, 2003; Paris, Ed. 10/18, 2006; Paris, Éditions de l'Olivier, 2015
Italian: Milano, Guanda, 2003; 2007
Dutch: Amsterdam, Vassallucci, 2003
English: New York, Grove/ Atlantic, 2004
Polish: Sejny, Fundacja Pogranicze, 2005
Spanish: Salamanca, Tropismos, 2006
Arabic: Cairo, Markaz al-Mahrusa, 2011
Czech: Pribram, Pistorius & Olsanska, 2016
Let It Be Morning
Italian: Milano, Guanda, 2005
German: Berlin, Berlin Verlag, 2005
Arabic: Lebanon, Saqi, 2005; Pback: Lebanon, Saqi, 2012
French: Paris, Ed. de L'Olivier, 2006; Paris, Points, 2008
English: New York, Grove/Atlantic, 2006; London, Atlantic Books, 2007
Czech: Příbram, Pistorius & Olšanská, 2017
Second Person Singular (Exposure)
German: Berlin, Berlin Verlag, 2011; pback: 2013
French: Paris, Ed. de L'Olivier, 2012
English: New York, Grove/Atlantic 2012; London, Chatto & Windus, 2012
Dutch: Amsterdam, Ambo/Anthos, 2012
Slovak: Bratislava, Slovart, 2012
Chinese: Taipei, Crown, 2012
Italian: Milan, Neri Pozza, 2013
English: London, Chatto & Windus, 2013
Catalan: Barcelona, Edicions de 1984, 2014
Polish: Warsaw, Wydawnictwo Filo, 2014
Czech: Příbram, Pistorius & Olšanská, 2014
Spanish: Barcelona, Galaxia Gutenberg , 2015
Italian: Vicenza, BEAT, 2018
Native
English: New York, Grove, 2016; London, Vintage, 2017
German: Berlin, Berlin Verlag, 2016
Spanish: Barcelona, Galaxia Gutenberg, 2019
Track Changes
German: Berlin, Berlin Verlag, 2019 (forthcoming)
Dutch: Amsterdam, Ambo|Anthos, 2019
Italian: Vicenza, Neri Pozza, 2019
English: New York, Grove Press, 2020
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