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Edna Mazya was born in Tel Aviv in 1949. A playwright and author, she studied theater and philosophy, and received her MA from Tel Aviv University where she later taught dramatic writing. Several of Mazya's plays have been performed abroad. She has also published two successful novels and three children's books. Mazya was awarded the Margalit Prize twice, for her plays Family Story and The Rebels (1997; 1999). For The Rebels, she also received the Lea Goldberg Prize (1997) and was nominated Playwright of the Year (1998). A film based on a script of hers received the Israel Academy's Best TV Film Award for the year 2003.
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Books Published in Hebrew
| | FICTION & CHILDREN | | An X-Ray Burst (Love Burns)
(novel)
, Hakibbutz Hameuchad/ Siman Kriah, 1997 [Hitpartzut X] | | The Unsatisfied
(novel)
, Keshet, 2005; Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, 2010 [Roman Mishpachti] | | Again, Granny, Again!
(children-picture bk)
, Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, 2010; board bk: 2016 [Savta, Od Pa'am!] | | An Adventure at the Theater (children-picture bk), Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, 2012 [Harpatka Ba-Teiatron] | | Day Boy, Night Boy (children-picture bk), Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, 2014 [Yeled Yom Yeled Layla] | | Thing to Do with Granny (children-picture bk), Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, 2017 [Ma Osim Im Savta] | | ----- | | PLAYS | | Games in the Backyard, Or-Am, 1993 [Mishakim Ba-Hatzer Ha-Ahorit] | | Family Story, Or-Am, 1997 [Sipur Mishpahti] | | The Rebels, Or-Am, 1999 [Ha-Mordim] | | Herod, Or-Am, 2000 [Hordus] | | Was It a Dream? Or-Am, 2008 [Haya O Lo Haya] | | The Aristocrats, Or-Am, 2010 [Ha-Aristocratim] | | Stempenyu [adaptation of Sholem Aleichemʹs novel], Or-Am, 2012 [Stempenyu] | | | ----- | | PERFORMED PLAYS | | Vienna by the Sea (Haifa Theatre, 1991) | | Games in the Backyard (Haifa Theatre, 1993) | | The Double [adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevskyʹs novella] (Haifa Theatre, 1994) | | The Uncle from Capetown (Haifa Theatre, 1995) | | Family Story (Cameri, 1996) | | The Rebles (Cameri, 1998) | | Herod (Cameri, 2000) | | Bad Boys (Camery, 2002) | | Was It a Dream (Camery, 2007) | | The Aristocrats (Cameri, 2010) | | Stempenyu [adaptation of Sholem Aleichemʹs novel] (Camery, 2012) | | The New Criminals (Cameri, 2014) | | The Back Room (Cameri & Beit Lessin, 2016) | |
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Books in Translation
German: Cologne, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2001; pback: 2003
Italian: Rome, edizioni e/o, 2001
English: Sydney, Picador /Pan Macmillan, 2005; New York, Europa, 2006
French: Paris, Liana Levi, 2008 German: Cologne, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2008; forthcoming Games in the Backyard (play)
English: Haifa, Haifa Municipal Theater, 1993
French: Brussels, Theatre de Poche, 1995
An Adventure at the Theater
Arabic: Bnei Brak, The Israel Center
for Books and Libraries, 2013
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