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.