Assaf Gavron


Assaf Gavron is an Israeli writer, novelist, translator and musician, formerly a journalist and hi-tech worker.
His books have been translated to several languages and won awards such as the Bernstein Prize for The Hilltop, Prix Courrier International for Croc Attack, "Ein Buch für die Stadt" for the same novel, and the Israeli Prime Minister Award for authors.

Biography

Assaf Gavron was born in the town of Arad in 1968 and grew up in Motza Illit near Jerusalem. Studied BA in Media and Communication in Goldsmiths' College in London, UK, and New Media in Vancouver, Canada. In the 1990s he worked as a journalist for several Israeli newspapers. Between 2000–2004 he was a creative director for Israeli high-tech company Valis. He has been teaching creative writing in Israel and the United States. Gavron has worked creating video games and as a rock musician; he has also translated American novels into Hebrew.
He lives in Tel Aviv with his wife and two daughters.

Works

Apart from his original works, Gavron is a literary translator from English to Hebrew. Among the more than twenty books he translated are J.D. Salinger's Nine Stories, Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint, Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated, J. K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy and Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife.
Gavron is the singer and songwriter with Israeli cult pop band The Mouth and Foot, that has released five albums between 1989 and 2013.
He is the Founder and Captain of the Israeli Writers Football national team.
He was the chief writer of video game Peacemaker.