The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.

Sacha Guitry, 1885 – 1957
Aharon Appelfeld biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Aharon Appelfeld

Author Name:

Aharon Appelfeld

Born As:

Aharon Appelfeld

Other Names:

Aharon Appelfeld

Born:

16 Feb 1932

Died:





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Novelist and poet                          
Selected Works:

 Badenheim 1939
The Immortal Bartfuss
The Story of a Life: A Memoir - 2003
The Age of Wonders - 1978, translated in 1981
Tzili - 1982, translated in 1983
To the Land of the Cattails translated in 1986
Katerina - 1989, translated in 1992
Iron Tracks - 1991,translated in 1998), and 
The Conversion - 1998,translated in 1999).

Appelfeld's Badenheim 1939 was adapted for the stage and performed at the Gerard Behar Center in Jerusalem in 2007.                          
Mother killed by Nazis. Father and Aharon deported to concentration camp in Ukraine. The two were separated, and didn’t find each other till twenty years later.                          
Israel Prize, in 1983.
National Jewish Book Award for fiction in 1989.
Won France's Prix Médicis. 
The German city of Dortmund awarded Appelfeld the Nelly Sachs Prize in 2005.                          
His mother tongue is German, but he also speaks Yiddish, Ukrainian, Russian, English and Italian.