Esther Bendahan
Moroccan-Spanish writer
Esther Bendahan Cohen (Tétouan, 1964) is a Moroccan-Spanish writer.
Her Moroccan Jewish family went to Madrid when she was a child, in this city she studied Psychology and French Literature. She is the director of the television program Shalom (RTVE) and the organizer of Centro Sefarad-Israel.
Books
- Soñar con Hispania (Dreaming of Hispania) (with Ester Benari), Ediciones Tantín, 2002
- La sombra y el mar (Shadow and Sea), Morales del Coso, 2003
- Deshojando alcachofas (Putting the Leaves off Some Artichokes), Seix Barral, 2005
- Déjalo, ya volveremos (Let It Be, We'll Come Back Some Day), Seix Barral, 2006, where she tells her childhood and the disintegration of Moroccan Jewish communities.
- La cara de Marte (Mars' Face), Algaida, 2007.
- El secreto de la reina persa (Persian Queen's Secret), La Esfera de los Libros, 2009
- Tratado del alma gemela, Ediciones del Viento, 2012. Award: XXII Premio de Narrativa Gonzalo Torrente Ballester.
Prizes
- Premio Fnac, Deshojando alcachofas.
- Tigre Juan Award, 2006 with La cara de Marte[1]
- Premio Torrente Ballester, 2011, El tratado del alma gemela.
Translations
- Au nom de l'Autre: Réflexions sur l'antisémitisme qui vient , Alain Finkielkraut, Seix Barral, 2005 (with Adolfo García Ortega).
References
- ^ Neira, Susana (16 December 2006). "Esther Bendahan se hace con el Tigre Juan con la novela 'La cara de Marte'" [Esther Bendahan Takes the Tigre Juan with the Novel 'La cara de Marte']. El Comercio (in Spanish). Oviedo. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
External links
- Seix Barral
- La Esfera de los Libros Archived 2009-06-07 at the Wayback Machine
- Déjalo, ya volveremos, Chapter 1 (PDF)
- http://elpais.com/elpais/2013/11/20/opinion/1384972577_665223.html
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