{{short description|Israeli poet and author born in Sderot|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Infobox person | name = Shimon Adaf | citizenship = Israel | occupation = Poetic and Author }} '''Shimon Adaf''' ({{langx|he|שמעון אדף}}; born 1972) is an Israeli poet and author born in Sderot.<ref>{{cite news |author=Naama Gershy |date=2 July 2008 |url=https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/998377.html |title=Netivot, the heart of everything |work=Haaretz |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121150717/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/998377.html |archivedate=21 November 2008 |accessdate=27 January 2014}}</ref> Shimon, born to parents of Moroccan origin, now lives in Jaffa. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Shimon Adaf |url=https://www.ithl.org.il/writer/shimon-adaf/ |access-date=2024-05-21 |website=The Israeli Institute for Hebrew Literature {{!}} המכון הישראלי לספרות עברית |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Education and career == Shimon Adaf's first book of poetry, ''Icarus' Monologue'', won a prize from the Israeli Ministry of Education. In 1996–2000, Adaf studied at Tel Aviv University, simultaneously writing articles on literature, film and rock music for Israeli newspapers. In 2000–2005, he worked as a prose editor for Keter Publishing House. He is currently the chair person of the creative writing program at Ben Gurion University in Israel.
In 2013, he won Israel's prestigious Sapir Prize for his novel ''Mox Nox.''<ref>{{cite news |date=17 February 2013 |title=Israel's top literary award, Sapir Prize, goes to Shimon Adaf |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/2013-02-17/ty-article/.premium/israel-awards-it-version-of-man-booker-prize/0000017f-f71c-d887-a7ff-fffc7f260000 |work=Haaretz |access-date=19 February 2013}}</ref>
He was interviewed on the Shaping Business Minds Through Art podcast in 2020.<ref>{{cite episode|title=#6 Shimon Adaf. Speculative Thinking. - Shaping Business Minds Through Art|series=The Artian Podcast|url=https://podcast.theartian.com/1032724/4654220-6-shimon-adaf-speculative-thinking|access-date=2021-02-26}}</ref>
==Awards== * 2007 - Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works * 2010 - Yehuda Amichai Award * 2012 - Sapir Prize * 2017 - Newman Prize * 2024 - Landau Prize for Poetry<ref>{{Cite news |last=ynet |date=2024-06-30 |title=קובי אוז ושמעון אדף הם בין הזוכים בפרס לנדאו 2024 |url=https://www.ynet.co.il/entertainment/article/skj6xr0ic |access-date=2025-04-01 |work=Ynet |language=he}}</ref>
== Books ==
===Poetry===
* ''Icarus' Monologue'', 1997 * ''That Which I Thought Shadow Is the Real Body'', 2002 * ''Aviva-No'', 2009
===Prose===
(All titles given in approximate English translation)
* ''One Mile and Two Days Before Sunset'', 2004 * ''The Buried Heart'', 2007 * ''Sunburnt Faces'', 2008 * ''Frost'', 2010 * ''Mox Nox'', 2011 * ''Undercities'', 2012 * ''The Wedding Gifts'', 2014 * ''Detective's Complaint'', 2015 * ''Shadrach'', 2017 * ''Rise and Call'', 2017 * ''I Loved Loving'', 2019
===Non-fiction===
* ''Art and War'', 2016 (with Lavie Tidhar) * ''I am others'', 2018
==References== {{reflist}}
== External links == *{{cite web |url=http://www.ithl.org.il/page_13125 |title=Shimon Adaf |publisher=The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature}} *{{cite web |url=http://www.lyrikline.org/en/poems/1069#.UucYLbSIapo |title=Shimon Adaf |publisher=lyrikline.org |language=Hebrew, German }} *{{cite web |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-948579-05-6 |title=Review of Aviva-No, trans: Yael Segalovitz |date=November 2019 |publisher=publishersweekly.com}} *{{cite web |url=https://www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/aviva-no |title=Aviva-No |publisher=Alice James Books}} *{{cite web |url=https://themillions.com/2019/11/must-read-poetry-november-2019.html |title=Review of Aviva-No, trans: Yael Segalovitz |date=6 November 2019 |publisher=themillions.com}} *{{cite web |url= https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2020/winter/editors-pick-aviva-no-shimon-adaf |title=Review of Aviva-No, trans: Yael Segalovitz |date=10 December 2019 |publisher=worldliteraturetoday.org}}
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