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Wounds of Memory by Nava Semel

Author, Playwright

Born in Jaffa and holds a MA in History of Art from the Tel Aviv University.
She is the author of thirteen books of fiction and four plays.
Her works include: Hat of Glass, the first Israeli book to focus on the children of Holocaust survivors. The book was translated into German, Italian and Romanian. Stories from the collection were published also in Great Britain, Spain, Albania, Turkey and China.
Becoming Gershona, winner of the National Jewish Book Award 1990 in the USA, was translated also into Italian, German, Romanian, and Dutch.
Flying Lessons was translated into English, German, Czech, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch.
Her monodrama The Child behind the Eyes, first produced in 1986, ran on the Israeli stage for 11 years. The play has also been produced by the BBC London, Radio France, Belgium, Spain, Ireland, Germany, Romania and Radio Austria where it won the "Best Radio Drama" award in 1996. On the stage, the play was produced in Rome, New York, Los Angeles, Prague and Sibui Theatre Festival in Romania. Currently the play is running at the Resita Theatre in Romania. An upcoming production in Turkish is due in the fall of 2005 by the National Theatre of Turkey in Ankara.
Her children's books include Who Stole the Show, winner of the Illustrated Book of the Israel Museum and cited at the "Ze'ev Award". It was published also in Italy and a television series based on the book was produced by the Israeli Second TV channel. Night Poems and The Courage to be Afraid - two collections of poetry for children on darkness and fears.
Other works of fiction include Bride on Paper - on the shortlist for the Youth German book award 2004, and Night Games focusing on Israelis in the time of crisis.
Her novel The Rat Laughs was published in Israel in 2001 to rave reviews and became a best seller. Her latest novel IsraIsland was published in September 2005.

NAVA SEMEL won the Israeli Prime Minister's Award for Literature in 1996, and is the recipient the Women Writers of the Mediterranean Award in France 1994.

A translator of plays for the Israeli stage, NAVA SEMEL also writes television scripts, short stories, and art reviews. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Massua - the Institute for Holocaust Studies, and a member of the Board of Governors of “Yad Vashem”. She teaches creative writing at "Beit Ariela" Public Library of Tel Aviv.

Translated from Hebrew by Anthony Berris

10. March 2006 - 5. June 2006

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