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- Country of residence: Portugal
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Biography
A Palestinian journalist and novelist, born in the city of Tira in 1975. He lived in Jerusalem and wrote in Hebrew.
He worked as a correspondent for the Jerusalem Hebrew newspaper “Kol Ha'ir”, then as a television critic and columnist for the Haaretz newspaper.
Novelistic output
"Dancing Arabs": His life story from his childhood in Al-Tira until his marriage, 2002
“Let it be morning”, 2004
“There was a morning”, 2006
“The Second Person’s Pronoun”, 2010
“The Second Person”, 2010
“Changing Course”, 2017
Other products
"Arab Work" (film), 2007
“Letters from an Israeli-Palestinian Life”, 2016
The documentary film “Sayed Kashua, Forever Afraid”, 2009 (documents the upheavals and events that changed Sayed Kashua’s life over seven years)
Other information (awards, seminars, hosting events, etc.)
Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literature, 2004
Grinzane Cavour Prize for First Novel in Italy for the novel "Dancing Arabs", 2004
Lessing Prize for Critics in Germany, 2006
Freedom of Expression Award from the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival in America, 2010
Best TV Series Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival, 2011
Bernstein Prize for the novel "The Second Person," 2011
The book “Letters from an Israeli-Palestinian Life” was shortlisted for the Grand Prize of Literary Societies in the Research category, 2016
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