Savyon Liebrecht
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Savyon Liebrecht was born in Munich, Germany, in 1948, to Holocaust survivor parents. She studied philosophy and literature at Tel Aviv University and started publishing in 1986. Liebrecht has published novels and several collections of novellas and short stories. She has also written a number of plays, all of which have been staged, and a number of TV scripts. One of her plays, The Banality of Love, ha been adapted to an opera in Germany to great acclaim. Three of her works have been adapted for TV: Purple Lawns (1998), Diana’s Child (2004) and The Banality of Love (2013), and two have been made into feature films: Valentina’s Mother (2008), based on a novella, and Apples from the Desert (2014), based on a short story and a play.
Liebrecht has received awards for two of her TV scripts, the Alterman Prize (1987), the Prime Minister’s Prize twice (1991; 1999), the Amelia Rosselli Prize for Mail Order Women (Italy, 2002) and the Maior-Amalfi Award (Italy, 2005) as well as the WIZO Prize (France, 2009) for A Good Place for the Night. She was also awarded Playwright of the Year for her successful plays, It’s All Greek to Me (2005) and Apples from the Desert (2006).
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