Welcome to evanfallenberg.com Evan invites you to look around at your leisure: you can read an excerpt from his novel, Light Fell; browse his translations of prominent and upcoming Israeli writers; learn about the writing retreats he leads with his colleague, Judy Labensohn; find out where he will be speaking/reading/lecturing and come meet him. News and announcements: Light Fell has won the American Library Association's Barbara Gittings Stonewall Book Award for Literature and the Edmund White Award for debut fiction, and has been shortlisted for the National Jewish Book Award in Fiction and the Lambda Literary Award for debut fiction. Light Fell has been named a Great Debut novel for 2008. Light Fell is now out in paperback and includes a Reading Group Guide, also available online. Click to hear Evan's interview on Cleveland National Public Radio (interview starts at the 32:00-minute mark). Evan Fallenberg is the recipient of a PEN Translation Prize for 2007. See www.pen.org. The Studio for writers (and readers) of English has opened! For information click here or write to  evanfallenberg@gmail.com.   Click here to view pictures of The Studio. Evan's first novel, Light Fell, was published in January 2008 and has been reviewed in the following: The Miami Herald, The Forward, The San Francisco Chronicle, Jewish Book World, The Jerusalem Post,  Hadassah Magazine, The Cleveland Jewish News, Jewish Tribune of Canada, Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus Review, Library Journal, Booklist, Enfuse, Edge, All Curled Up with a Good Book and Blogcritics Magazine.   Evan was asked to contribute a Book Notes essay to Largehearted Boy. Light Fell has been excerpted in ZEEK and The Page 69 Test. Interviews with Evan have appeared in Haaretz, Washington Blade, Israel 21C, Nextbook, La Bloga and on WEWS TV News (Cleveland) and now YouTube. The Jewish Book Council has named Light Fell as its Weekly Recommendation for Fiction (February 2, 2008). Evan's translation of Meir Shalev's A Pigeon and a Boy has won the 2007 National Jewish Book Council Award for Fiction. Reviews can be found in the New York Times and Miami Herald.