Savyon Liebrecht
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Savyon Liebrecht (1948-) is one of Israel's best-known authors, although less known outside Israel. Born as the oldest child in Munich, Germany to Polish Holocaust survivors as Sabine Sosnowski, she moved to Israel in 1950.
Ms. Liebrecht studied journalism in Londonm United Kingdom for 1 year, and received a baccalaureate from Tel Aviv University. In 1971, Ms. Liebrecht married and in 1977 she had a daughter and later a son.
Ms. Liebrecht has published six collections of short stories and novellas and two novels. She has also written three plays, all of which have been staged, and several TV scripts.
She has received awards for two of her TV scripts, the Alterman Prize (1987), the Amelia Rosselli Prize for Mail Order Women (Italy, 2002) and the Maior-Amalfi Award for A Good Place for the Night (Italy, 2005).
She was awarded Playwright of the Year for her successful plays, It`s All Greek to Me (2005), and Apples in the Desert(2006). Ms. Liebrecht received the WIZO Prize(France, 2009).
Works
Her published works include:
- Apples from the Desert: Selected Stories, Feminist Press, 2000 ISBN 9781558612358
- A Man and a Woman and a Man: A Novel, Persea Books, 2003, ISBN 9780892552979
- A Good Place for the Night: Stories, Persea Books, 2006, ISBN 9780892553204
- The Women My Father Knew: A Novel, Persea Books, 2010, ISBN 9780892553563
External links
- Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature
- Prague Writers' Festival
- Biography of Savyon Liebrecht
Sources
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