Ehud Havazelet
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Ehud Havazelet was born in Jerusalem, Israel. His father, Meir Havazelet, a rabbi and emeritus professor at Yeshiva University, emigrated to the United States in 1957.[1] He graduated from Columbia University in 1977, and received an M.F.A at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop in 1984. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University from 1984 to 1989. He taught creative writing at Oregon State University from 1989 to 1999. He began teaching at the University of Oregon in 1999 and held the position of Professor of Creative Writing at the time of his death in 2015.[2][3]
Honors
- Pushcart Prize, 1988
- California Book Award, 1988
- Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, 1988
- Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship, 1990
- Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship, 1994
- Whiting Award, 1999
- Oregon Book Award for fiction, 1999
- Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, 2000
- Guggenheim Fellowship, 2001
- Edward Lewis Wallant Award, 2007
- Oregon Book Award for fiction, 2008
- University of Oregon Fund for Faculty Excellence Award, 2008
- The Best American Short Stories, 2011
Works
Books
- What Is It Then Between Us? (short stories), Scribner, 1988.
- Like Never Before, (short stories), Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998.
- Bearing the Body, (novel), Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007.
Anthologies
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- (Originally published in TriQuarterly)
Short stories
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References
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External links
- Jewish Literary Review interview with Ehud Havazelet
- Review of Bearing The Body on Jewish Literary Review
- Podcast on Fogged Clarity with Ehud Havazelet discussing "Gurov in Manhattan"
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
- Obituary for Ehud Havazelet from the Corvallis Gazette-Times
- Tribute to Ehud Havazelet on Oregonlive
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- 1955 births
- American women novelists
- American women short story writers
- Jewish American novelists
- Jewish American short story writers
- Jewish women writers
- Columbia University alumni
- Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
- Writers from Oregon
- Stanford University Department of English faculty
- Oregon State University faculty
- University of Oregon faculty
- Israeli emigrants to the United States
- 2015 deaths
- Writers from Jerusalem
- Jews from Oregon
- 21st-century American Jews
- Stegner Fellows