Evan Fallenberg

Evan Fallenberg
Born (1961-08-08) 8 August 1961
Cleveland, Ohio
Occupation Writer
Nationality American,Israeli
Education Georgetown University
Genre Fiction
Notable works Light Fell, " When we Danced on Water"
Notable awards "Stonewall Book Award" "Barbara Gittings Literature Award"
Website
www.evanfallenberg.com

Evan Fallenberg (born August 8, 1961 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American-born writer residing in Israel. His debut novel Light Fell, published in 2008, won the Stonewall Book Award[1] and the Edmund White Award, and was a shortlisted Lambda Literary Award nominee for Gay Debut Fiction at the 21st Lambda Literary Awards.[2]

His second novel, When We Danced on Water, was published in 2011.[3] He has also published English translations of several Israeli writers, including Ron Leshem and Batya Gur.[4]

Life

Originally from Cleveland, Ohio,[5] he was educated at Georgetown University. He also studied in Switzerland, worked in Japan and settled in Israel in 1985. He has an undergraduate degree in diplomacy from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.

He currently teaches creative writing and literary translation at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel,[5] and has recently been renovating an ancient home in Acre as a writer's retreat.[6]

Fallenberg came out as gay in 2006.[7] He recently opened Arabesque, an Arts and Residency Center in the heart of Old Acre, Israel.[8]

Fallenberg has served as a judge or advisor to a number of prize juries, including the Sami Rohr Prize and the Galtelli Literary Awards. He has received fellowships for residencies from the MacDowell Colony, the National Endowment for the Arts (at Vermont Studio Center), and Fondation Ledig-Rowohlt (at Chateau de Lavigny, Switzerland) and has taken part in conferences and festivals around the globe.

Publications

Novels

Translated works

Translated novellas

Translated nonfiction works

Translated plays

Translated screenplays

Translated libretti

Selected miscellaneous translated works

Translated works pending publication

Awards

Won/ Shortlisted

References

External links


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