Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter

I received the first Insti­tute for the Trans­la­tion of Hebrew Lit­er­a­ture (ITHL) newslet­ter this week from Liran Golod over at the Israeli Con­sulate in New York. Packed with awards, events, news, poet­ry, and children’s books, this is def­i­nite­ly one to sign up for! The first issue included:

• Ronit Mat­alon receives the pres­ti­gious Bern­stein Prize 2009 and is short­list­ed for the Sapir Prize for The Sound of our Steps
• Amos Kenan, jour­nal­ist, play­wright, sculp­tor, painter, song­writer, poet and thinker, died on 4 August.
• Yoram Kaniuk’s nov­el, The Last Jew, is now in French
• Final­ly in Eng­lish: S. Yizhar, The Sto­ry of Khir­bet Khizeh, Ibis Editions
• For­eign Rights snapped up for Yishai Sarid’s remark­able lit­er­ary thriller Limassol
• Etgar Keret’s movie The Mean­ing of Life is now avail­able for puchase.
• Meet trans­la­tor Asaf Schurr
• The Com­plete Poems by Israel’s lead­ing liv­ing poet – just pub­lished by Hak­ib­butz Hameuchad (3 vols).

Read the com­plete newslet­ter here.