Ehud Havazelet
{{Short description|American novelist and short story writer}}
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| birth_place = Jerusalem, Israel
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| death_place = Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.
| occupation = Writer
| nationality = American
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Ehud Havazelet ({{Langx|he|אהוד חבזלת}}; July 13, 1955 – November 5, 2015) was an American novelist and short story writer.
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.Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008. Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. 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."Ehud Havazelet." Writers Directory, 24th ed. St. James Press, 2008{{cite web|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2015/11/ehud_havazelet_oregon_book_awa.html|title=Ehud Havazelet, Oregon Book Award winner and UO professor, died Nov. 5|work=OregonLive.com|date=7 November 2015}}
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=
- {{cite book |date=2011 |title=The Best American Short Stories 2011 |chapter=Gurov in Manhattan |url=https://archive.org/details/bestamericanmyst00harl |url-access=registration |quote=best american short stories 2011. |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |isbn=978-0-547-24208-8 }}
- (Originally published in TriQuarterly)
=Short stories=
- {{cite journal |date=Winter 2007–2008 |title=Law of Return |journal=Ploughshares |publisher=Emerson College }}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20091101193052/http://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/post/Four-questions-for-Ehud-Havazelet.aspx Jewish Literary Review interview with Ehud Havazelet]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090106125533/http://www.jewishliteraryreview.com/post/Review-Ehud-Havazelet-Bearing-the-Body.aspx Review of Bearing The Body on Jewish Literary Review]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20111228011046/http://foggedclarity.com/2011/10/ehud-havazelet/ Podcast on Fogged Clarity with Ehud Havazelet discussing "Gurov in Manhattan"]
- [http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/ehud-havazelet#/ Profile at The Whiting Foundation]
- [http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/obituaries/ehud-havazelet/article_44c4eac1-394a-5dc9-b6e0-edeb7deea07b.html/ Obituary for Ehud Havazelet from the Corvallis Gazette-Times]
- [http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2015/11/ehud_havazelet_oregon_book_awa.html/ Tribute to Ehud Havazelet on Oregonlive]
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Category:American women novelists
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