Avner Shats
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Avner Shats is an Israel
i author and poet. Born in Kiryat Yam, Israel, he now lives in Haifa
.
Having attended the naval academy in Acre
as a boy, Shats commanded a swift boat
on the Dead Sea
before going to work for a shipping company. He is held to be an expert on maritime lore in general and the brief, checkered history of seafaring Israel in particular.
He is regarded as Israel's token postmodernist
, having first come to public attention in 1990 with an anonymous short story ("Figs") that had the judges of the first Haaretz
short story competition convinced that its author was a young Palestinian
woman. A collection of stories ("Printed Circuits") followed. The novel "Sailing to the Sunset" received the 1997 Schweipert Prize, bestowed by Hebrew University. That novel's main character, Elad Manor, was accepted to the prestigious Mishkenot Shaananim Poetry Workshop, also in Jerusalem. In 2000 Shats was a fellow of the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, associated with Oxford University, where he began his second, still unfinished novel, "42."
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i author and poet. Born in Kiryat Yam, Israel, he now lives in Haifa
Haifa
Haifa is the largest city in northern Israel, and the third-largest city in the country, with a population of over 268,000. Another 300,000 people live in towns directly adjacent to the city including the cities of the Krayot, as well as, Tirat Carmel, Daliyat al-Karmel and Nesher...
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Having attended the naval academy in Acre
Acre, Israel
Acre , is a city in the Western Galilee region of northern Israel at the northern extremity of Haifa Bay. Acre is one of the oldest continuously inhabited sites in the country....
as a boy, Shats commanded a swift boat
Swift Boat
Swift Boat may refer to:*a Patrol Craft Fast*Swift Vets and POWs for Truth, originally named Swift Boat Veterans For Truth*Swiftboating, political jargon for a particular form of character assassination as a smear tactic...
on the Dead Sea
Dead Sea
The Dead Sea , also called the Salt Sea, is a salt lake bordering Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west. Its surface and shores are below sea level, the lowest elevation on the Earth's surface. The Dead Sea is deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world...
before going to work for a shipping company. He is held to be an expert on maritime lore in general and the brief, checkered history of seafaring Israel in particular.
He is regarded as Israel's token postmodernist
Postmodern literature
The term Postmodern literature is used to describe certain characteristics of post–World War II literature and a reaction against Enlightenment ideas implicit in Modernist literature.Postmodern literature, like postmodernism as a whole, is hard to define and there is little agreement on the exact...
, having first come to public attention in 1990 with an anonymous short story ("Figs") that had the judges of the first Haaretz
Haaretz
Haaretz is Israel's oldest daily newspaper. It was founded in 1918 and is now published in both Hebrew and English in Berliner format. The English edition is published and sold together with the International Herald Tribune. Both Hebrew and English editions can be read on the Internet...
short story competition convinced that its author was a young Palestinian
Palestinian people
The Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with origins in Palestine. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one third of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza...
woman. A collection of stories ("Printed Circuits") followed. The novel "Sailing to the Sunset" received the 1997 Schweipert Prize, bestowed by Hebrew University. That novel's main character, Elad Manor, was accepted to the prestigious Mishkenot Shaananim Poetry Workshop, also in Jerusalem. In 2000 Shats was a fellow of the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, associated with Oxford University, where he began his second, still unfinished novel, "42."