Ehud Havazelet
| Ehud Havazelet | |
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| Born |
July 13, 1955 Jerusalem, Israel |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality |
 United States |
| Genre | Literary fiction |
Ehud Havazelet (born July 13, 1955) is an American novelist and short story writer.
Ehud Havazelet was born in Jerusalem, Israel. His father, Meir Havazelet, a rabbi and emeritus professor at Yeshiva University emigrated to the United States in 1957.[1] He graduated from Columbia University in 1977, and received an M.F.A at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop in 1984. He became a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, from 1985 to 1989, and a Wallace Stegner Fellow. He taught creative writing at Oregon State University from 1989 to 1999. Since 1999, he has taught at the University of Oregon, where he holds the position of Professor of Creative Writing.[2]
Honors
- Pushcart Prize, 1988
- California Book Award, 1988
- Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, 1988
- Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship, 1990
- Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship,1994
- Whiting Writers' Award, 1999
- Oregon Book Award for fiction, 1999
- Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, 2000
- Guggenheim Fellowship, 2001
- Edward Lewis Wallant Award, 2007
- Oregon Book Award for fiction, 2008
- University of Oregon Fund for Faculty Excellence Award, 2008
- The Best American Short Stories, 2011
Works
- What Is It Then Between Us? (short stories), Scribner, 1988.
- Like Never Before, (short stories), Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998.
- Bearing the Body, (novel), Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007.
References
External links
- Jewish Literary Review interview with Ehud Havazelet
- Review of Bearing The Body on Jewish Literary Review
- Podcast on Fogged Clarity with Ehud Havazelet discussing "Gurov in Manhattan"
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