won the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize for Best British Fiction, was twice longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger Award and the Rome Prize. He co-wrote Art and War: Poetry, Pulp and Politics in Israeli Fiction, and is a columnist for the Washington Post.
Tidhar's latest work is Maror, "a novel that attempts to write an Israel that couldn’t be written from within."
At the Guardian he tagged ten books that answer the question How does one write of Israel? differently. One title on the list:
One Mile and Two Days Before Sunset by Shimon AdafRead about the other entries on the list.
Adaf’s first novel is merely the opening shot in the recently translated Lost Detective trilogy, which treats the story of Israel as a fiction that must be deciphered by an author-detective lost in the futility of the attempt. A welcome introduction in English to one of Israel’s most adventurous literary novelists.
--Marshal Zeringue
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