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Aharon Appelfeld Israel PWF 2000, 1997
In 1944 he was liberated by the Russian army. In 1946 he emigrated to Israel (then Palestine). He has published more than twenty books which include: Badenheim 1939, The Immortal Bartfuss, The Age of Wonders, Katerina, Beyond Despair, Conversion, The Iron Tracks, All That I Have Loved, and Story of a Life. Primo Levi wrote: "Among us, the writer survivors, Aharon Appelfeld's voice has a unique, unmistakable tone, eloquent through reticence." Aharon Appelfeld lives in Jerusalem.
Aharon Appelfeld in conversation with Michael March
04.02.2008 Interviews
He describes himself as "a small, old Jew with glasses" with a voice that has the tenderness and wisdom of the Torah. His prose has a rare clarity, a profound delicacy bled to the sadness of life.
