Appelfeld,
Aharon
Aharon Appelfeld was born in Czernowitz, Bukovina,
in 1932. A Holocaust survivor and post-war refugee,
he made his way to Italy before immigrating
to Israel. This graduate of Hebrew University
is now a professor of Hebrew Literature at Ben
Gurion University of the Negev. He began publishing
poetry in 1959; his upcoming book, A
Table for One: Under the Light of Jerusalem,
will be available in April, 2005. Appelfeld
has received the Israel Prize, and he is a winner
of the National Jewish Book Award.
