Amir Gutfreund (1963-2015) was born in Haifa and since 2005 lived in the Galilee. After studying applied mathematics at the Technion, he joined the Israeli Air Force where he worked for 20 years in mathematical research. Gutfreund received the Buchman Prize for Our Holocaust (2001), the Sapir Prize for The Shoreline Mansions (2003), the Book Publishers Association's Gold Book Prize (2006) as well as the Rohr Choice Award (USA, 2007) for Our Holocaust, the Prime Minister's Prize (2013) and the Ramat Gan Prize for The Legend of Bruno and Adella (2015). His last book, Mount of Beatitudes, was awarded the Steimatzky Prize for best-selling book of the year posthumously (2016)
Books Published in Hebrew
Our Holocaust (novel), Zmora-Bitan, 2000; 2002 [Sho'a Shelanu]
The Shoreline Mansions (stories), Zmora-Bitan, 2002 [Achuzot Ha-Chof]
The World, a Moment Later (novel), Zmora-Bitan, 2005 [Ha-Olam, Ktzat Achar Kach]
Heroes Fly to Her (novel), Zmora-Bitan, 2008 [Bishvila Giborim Afim]
A Mercenary and Winter Buds (novel), Zmora-Bitan, 2013 [Mazal Orev]
Last Bullet Calls It [The Legend of Bruno and Adella] (novel), Zmora-Bitan, 2014 [Agadat Bruno Ve-Adella]
Mount of Beatitudes (novel), Zmora-Bitan, 2016 [Har Ha-Osher]
Books in Translation
Our Holocaust
German: Berlin, Berlin Verlag, 2003; pback: Berlin Taschenbuch, 2005
English: New York/London, Toby Press, 2006; pback: AmazonCrossing, 2012 French: Paris, Gallimard, 2007; Paris, Folio, 2009
Czech: Prague, Garamond, 2012
Hungarian: Budapest, Europa, 2013
The World, a Moment Later
English: New York/London, Toby Press, 2008; AmazonCrossing, 2012
French: Paris, Gallimard, 2007; pback: Paris, Gallimard/Folio, 2009
Heroes Fly to Her
French: Paris, Gallimard, 2015
Last Bullet Calls It [The Legend of Bruno and Adella]
English: AmazonCrossing, 2017
French: Paris, Gallimard, 2017