Author: Evan Fallenberg
Profile: Evan Fallenberg is an American born writer and translator. He resides in Israel. ‘Light Fell’ is his debut novel. Originally, Evan is from Cleveland, Ohio, and completed his education at Georgetown University. Besides this he has studied at Switzerland also. He worked in Japan and in 1985, settled in Israel. Fallenberg holds an MFA degree in creative writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and also the BSFS in diplomacy from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Evan Fallenberg teaches literary translation and creative writing at Bar-Ilan University located in Ramat Gan, in Israel. Besides this he is also the faculty co-director of the International low-residency MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, in Creative Writing & Literary Translation. In the year 2016 he has opened an Arts and Residency Centre named Arabesque, in the heart of Old Acre, in Israel. He has renovated an ancient home in Acre recently as a writer’s retreat.
Writing style: Evan Fallenberg is a person of language and hence creativity means words, which has made him a writer. All the time, his brain is wired to making up stories. He begins writing with a completely whole narrative arc in his mind.
Published Texts:
Novels
2018 – The Parting Gift
2008 – Light Fell
2011 – When We Danced on Water
Translated Works
2015 – Mishka Ben David, Duet in Beirut
2011 – Meir Shalev, My Russian Grandmother’s American Vacuum Cleaner
2007 – Meir Shalev, A Pigeon and a Boy
2008 – Ron Leshem, Beaufort
2006 – Alon Hilu, Death of a Monk
2010 – Alon Hilu, The House of Rajani
2006 – Batya Gur, Murder in Jerusalem
Translated Novellas
2005 – Gilad Evron, The Falcon
Translated Nonfiction works
2010 – Yair Lapid, Memories After My Death
Translated Plays
2019 – Hanoch Levin, The Thin Soldier
2019 – Hanoch Levin, The Child Dreams
2019 – Hanoch Levin, The Lamenters
2019 – Hanoch Levin, Walkers in the Dark
2019 – Hanoch Levin, Krum
2007 – Gilad Evron, Only Language Remains
2010 – Gilad Evron, Ulysses on Bottles
2007 – Roni Pinkovitch
2006 – Roi Rashkes, Moving
Translated Screenplays
2012 – Savi Gabizon
2013 – Adir Miller, House of Brown
2014 – Reshef Levi, Hunting Elephants; The Arbitrator
Translated libretti
2018 – Yonatan Levi, The Sleeping Thousand
2008 – Lior Navok, The Little Mermaid
2009 – Lior Navok, Pinocchio
Awards and Acknowledgements:
Won / Shortlisted
Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction
American Library Association’s Barbara Gittings Stonewall Book Award for Literature
Times Literary Supplement of London Risa Domb / Porjes Prize for Translation of Hebrew Literature
Harold U. Ribalow Award
Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction; the National Jewish Book Award in Fiction
PEN Translation Prize
Samuel Goldberg Foundation Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers
Won the Stonewall Book Award (Light Fell)
Won the Edmund White Award (Light Fell)
Shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award (Light Fell)
Nominee for Gay Debut Fiction at the 21st Lambda Literary Awards (Light Fell)