Ehud Havazelet

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name = Ehud Havazelet


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birthplace = Jerusalem, Israel
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occupation = Short Story Writer
nationality = USA
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genre = Literary fiction
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debut_works = "What Is It Then between Us?" (1988)
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Ehud Havazelet (born July 13, 1955) is an award-winning American short story writer.

Early life and education

Havazalet was born in Jerusalem, Israel. His father, Meir Havazalet, a rabbi and professor at Yeshiva University emigrated to the United States in 1957. ["Contemporary Authors Online", Gale, 2008. Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008.] 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. Since 1999, he has taught creative writing at the University of Oregon ["Ehud Havazelet." Writers Directory, 24th ed. St. James Press, 2008] .

Honors

* Pushcart Prize, 1988
* California Book Award, 1988
* Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, 1988
* Literary Arts Fellowship, 1990
* Literary Arts Fellowship,1994
* Whiting Writers' Award, 1999
* Oregon Book Award for fiction, 1999
* Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, 2000
* Guggenheim Fellowship, 2001

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.

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