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The moment that he decided to write prose was a
blessed moment for the Hebrew literature of our times.
—Gilad Seri Levy
Alex Epstein
Alex Epstein was born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in 1971 and moved to Israel when he was eight years old. He is the author of three collections of short stories and three novels; his work has also been translated into Russian, French, Greek, Spanish, Hungarian, Dutch, Croatian, Polish, and Italian. In 2003 he was awarded Israel’s Prime Minister’s Prize for Literature. In 2007 he participated in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. He writes literary reviews for several newspapers and teaches creative writing in Tel Aviv. His short-short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in English in Words Without Borders, the Iowa Review, Rhino, Zeek, and Natural Bridge.
author photo by Thomas Langdon
Interview: Israel's New Borges
Less is More: Alex Epstein's Poetic Prose
Ten Short Pieces at Words without Borders
The Diversity Test: A PEN World Voices Panel with Alex