Benjamin Balint
{{Short description|Canadian writer}}
{{Infobox author
| occupation = Author, journalist, educator, and translator
| nationality = American-Israeli
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1976}}
| awards = Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature (2020)
}}
Benjamin Balint (born 1976) is an American-Israeli author, journalist, educator, and translator. His 2018 book Kafka's Last Trial, which explores the literary legacy of Franz Kafka,{{Cite web|title=Kafka Esq. – In conversation with Benjamin Balint|url=https://www.jpost.com/jerusalem-report/kafka-esq-in-conversation-with-benjamin-balint-568007|website=The Jerusalem Post |access-date=2020-05-13 |date=September 1, 2019 |first= Susan |last=Goodman}} won the 2020 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.
Writing career
Balint was assistant editor for Commentary magazine.{{cite news |last1=Linker |first1=Damon |title=Turning Right |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/books/review/Linker-t.html |work=The New York Times |date=July 30, 2010}} He contributes regularly to The Wall Street Journal, Die Zeit, Haaretz,{{Cite web|title=Benjamin Balint|url=https://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/WRITER-1.4968362|website=haaretz.com|date=28 April 2016 |access-date=2020-05-13}} The Weekly Standard, and the Claremont Review of Books.
Balint's 2018 book Kafka’s Last Trial narrates the journey of Kafka's manuscripts from Czechoslovakia to Israel's National Library.{{Cite web|title=Kafka's Last Trial by Benjamin Balint – review|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/08/kafkas-last-trial-benjamin-balint-review|date=January 8, 2019|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=2020-05-13|first=Tim|last=Adams}} For this work, Balint was awarded the 2020 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.{{cite news |last1=Oster |first1=Marcy |title=Benjamin Balint wins 2020 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for Kafka book |url=https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/benjamin-balint-wins-2020-sami-rohr-prize-for-jewish-literature-for-kafka-book |work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |date=May 11, 2020}} The book was also a finalist for the 2020 Wingate Literary Prize.{{Cite web|title=2020 Wingate Literary Prize|url=http://www.wingatefoundation.org.uk/literary_prize.php|last=|first=|date=|website=|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140927003246/http://www.wingatefoundation.org.uk:80/literary_prize.php |archive-date=2014-09-27 |access-date=}}
Balint’s 2023 book, Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History, won the National Jewish Book Award in the Biography category.{{Cite web |title=Past Winners of the National Jewish Book Award in the Biography category |url=https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/national-jewish-book-awards/past-winners?category=30733 |access-date=2025-03-28 |website=Jewish Book Council |language=en}}
Balint was a fellow at the Hudson Institute and Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
Personal life
Bibliography
- {{cite book |last1=Balint |first1=Benjamin |title=Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left Into the Neoconservative Right |date=2010 |publisher=PublicAffairs |isbn=978-1586487492 |url=https://archive.org/details/commentaryinamer0000unse}}
- {{cite book |last1=Balint |first1=Benjamin |title=Kafka's Last Trial: The Strange Case of a Literary Legacy |date=2018 |location=New York| publisher=Pan Macmillan|isbn=9781324001317}}
- {{cite book |last1=Mack |first1=Merav |last2=Balint |first2=Benjamin |title=Jerusalem: City of the Book |date=May 14, 2019 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=9780300222852}}
- {{cite book |last1=Balint |first1=Benjamin |title=Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History |date=2023 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=9780393866575}}
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Category:American male non-fiction writers
Category:Jewish American non-fiction writers