Esther Bendahan

Esther Bendahan Cohen (Tétouan, 1964) is a Moroccan-Spanish writer.

Her Sephardic Moroccan family went to Madrid when she was a child, in this city she studied Psychology and French Literature. She is the director of the television program «Shalom» (RTVE) and the organizer of Casa Sefarad-Israel.

Books

Soñar con Hispania (Dreaming of Hispania) (with Ester Benari), Ediciones Tantín, 2002
La sombra y el mar (Shadow and Sea), Morales del Coso, 2003
Deshojando alcachofas (Putting the Leaves off Some Artichokes), Seix Barral, 2005
Déjalo, ya volveremos (Let It Be, We'll Come Back Some Day), Seix Barral, 2006, where she tells her childhood and the disintegration of Moroccan Jewish communities.
La cara de Marte (Mars' Face), Algaida, 2007.
El secreto de la reina persa (Persian Queen's Secret), La Esfera de los Libros, 2009
Pene, Ediciones Ambulantes, 2011. An interesting work against submission, presented as a dialogue with the work The chest from Philip Roth.
Tratado del alma gemela, Ediciones del Viento, 2012. Award: XXII Premio de Narrativa Gonzalo Torrente Ballester.

Prizes

Premio Fnac, Deshojando alcachofas.
Premio Tigre Juan, 2006 with La cara de Marte
Premio Torrente ballester, 2011 , El tratado del alma gemela.

Translations

Au nom de l'Autre: Réflexions sur l'antisémitisme qui vient , Alain Finkielkraut, Seix Barral, 2005 (with Adolfo García Ortega).

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