Aharon Appelfeld

Aharon Appelfeld (1932-2018) wrote more than forty works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Iron Tracks and Until the Dawn's Light, both winners of the National Jewish Book Award. His book The Story of a Life won he Prix Médicis Étranger, and Adam & Thomas won the Sydney Taylor Book Award and was a finalist for the 2016 National Jewish Book Award. His other honors include the Giovanni Boccaccio Literary Prize, Nelly Sachs Prize, Israel Prize, Bialik Prize, the MLA Commonwealth Award, and the London Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received honorary degrees from the Jewish Theological Seminary, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and Yeshiva University.