Ehud Havazelet (; 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
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
(Originally published in TriQuarterly)
Short stories
References
External links Jewish Literary Review interview with Ehud Havazelet Review of Bearing The Body on Jewish Literary Review Podcast on Fogged Clarity with Ehud Havazelet discussing "Gurov in Manhattan" Profile at The Whiting Foundation Obituary for Ehud Havazelet from the Corvallis Gazette-Times Tribute to Ehud Havazelet on Oregonlive