Aharon Appelfeld |
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Aharon Appelfeld has lived in Israel since 1946. His first published novel, Smoke, appeared in 1962, after he had taught himself to write in Hebrew. Since then he has written many highly acclaimed works of fiction, including Badenheim 1939 (Penguin Modern Classics) and Katerina, as well as the lectures Beyond Despair, all in some way inspired by his experience as ‘an émigré, a refugee, a man who carries within him the child of war.’ The Story of a Life, from which those last words are taken, is, among many other things, a passionate account of Appelfeld’s writing life, the loss of his first language, the inhibitions of speech and his position in the post-war Israeli writing scene.
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