Shimon Adaf
Shimon Adaf is an Israeli poet and author born in Sderot.Biography
Shimon Adaf's first book of poetry, Icarus' Monologue, won a prize from the Israeli Ministry of Education. In 1996–2000, Adaf studied at Tel Aviv University, simultaneously writing articles on literature, film and rock music for Israeli newspapers. In 2000–2005, he worked as a prose editor for Keter Publishing House. He is currently the chair of the creative writing program at Ben Gurion University in Israel.
In 2013, he won Israel's prestigious Sapir Prize for his novel "Mox Nox."Books
Poetry
- Icarus' Monologue, 1997
- What Which I Thought Shadow Is the Real Body, 2002
- Aviva-No, 2009
Prose
- One Mile and Two Days Before Sunset, 2004
- The Buried Heart, 2007
- Sunburnt Faces, 2008
- Frost, 2010
- Mox Nox, 2011
- Undercities, 2012
- The Wedding Gifts, 2014
- Detective's Complaint, 2015
- Shadrach, 2017
- Rise and Call, 2017
- I loved loving, 2019
Non-Fiction
- Art and War, 2016
- I others, 2018
