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Agur Schiff

Contributor

Agur Schiff

Agur Schiff was born in Tel Aviv in 1955 and is a graduate of St. Martin's School of Art in London, where he specialized in animation. He won critical acclaim as a filmmaker before turning to writing. His award-winning debut collection of short stories, Dying Animals and Bad Weather (1995), was followed by a second collection entitled Stories for Short Trips (1999) and three novels: Bad Habits (2004), What You Wished For (2007), and In the Sand (2010).

Schiff was awarded the Israel Prime Minister's Prize for literature in 2009.

He is a senior lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design in Jerusalem and lives in Tel aviv with his wife and two children.

Articles by Agur Schiff

from “What You Wished For”
By Agur Schiff
There was, for example, his fascinating report of how he trained a wolf pup while hiding out as a partisan in the woods near Minsk.
Translated from Hebrew by Jessica Cohen
Multilingual
How Old is the Queen of England?
By Agur Schiff
The old dog lumbers beside me, exhaling and inhaling laboriously and tracking my steps with her bowed head turned white with old age.
Translated from Hebrew by Jessica Cohen
Multilingual