Ron Leshem
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Ron Leshem (Hebrew: רון לשם; born December 20, 1976), is an Israeli writer and media professional, and author of the novel Beaufort (2005, original Hebrew If There is a Heaven) for which he won the 2006 Sapir Prize for Literature and the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize for Military Literature. The novel was adapted in 2007 into the successful, Academy Award-nominated Israeli film Beaufort.
He served as journalist and editor for Israeli periodicals Yedioth Ahronoth during the years 1998-2002 and Ma'ariv during the years 2002-2006. [1]
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- Ron Leshem [Hebrew]
- Right to left | Jerusalem Post
- An excerpt from "Beaufort" appears here in English: | Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture
