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A Note About the Author

Aharon Appelfeld is the author of more than twenty internationally acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, including Badenheim 1939, Tzili, The Iron Tracks, The Conversion, and The Story of a Life. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. He has won the Israel Prize in Literature, the National Jewish Book Award, and the MLA Commonwealth Award for Literature in America. Born in Czernowitz, Ukraine, in 1932, he lives in Israel.