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Biography of Aharon Appelfeld

Aharon Appelfeld is a contemporary Israeli writer and one of the nominees for the Man Booker International Prize in 2013.

Although less than one percent of people on the planet speak Hebrew today, the percentage of outstanding authors writing in this recently revived language is incredibly high. Appelfeld is one of them, having successfully adapted the holy language to the realities of the modern world and the tragic experience of the Holocaust.

Born on February 12, 1932, in the village of Sadhora, which is now part of Chernivtsi, Ukraine, Appelfeld was raised in a Jewish family.

In the 1930s, the territory belonged to Romania, and with the start of World War II, the villages were quickly occupied, and Jews were deported to concentration camps. The same fate befell Appelfeld's family: his mother was killed by Romanian soldiers during one of the ra