Evan Fallenberg (born August 8, 1961) is an American-born writer and translator residing in Israel. His debut novel Light Fell, published in 2008, won the Stonewall Book Award"Library Association announces 2009 Stonewall Book Awards". The Empty Closet, April 2009. and the Edmund White Award, and was a shortlisted Lambda Literary Award nominee for Debut Fiction at the 21st Lambda Literary Awards."21st Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary Foundation, February 18, 2010. His second novel, When We Danced on Water, was published in 2011 by HarperPerennial, and his third, The Parting Gift, by Other Press in 2018."Intense Psycho-Dancing. The Forward, July 13, 2011. He has also published English translations of several Israeli writers, including Meir Shalev, Hanoch Levin, Ron Leshem and Batya Gur."Off the map? Israel’s English-language writers wonder where they fit in". The Times of Israel, May 17, 2012.
Life Originally from Cleveland, Ohio,"Author awarded residency". Cleveland Jewish News, September 18, 2015. holds a BSFS in diplomacy from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He also studied in Switzerland, worked in Japan and settled in Israel in 1985. He also has an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
He currently teaches creative writing and literary translation at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, and is faculty co-director of the International low-residency MFA program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Fallenberg renovated an ancient home in Acre as a writer's retreat"An ancient Acre home becomes a writer’s residence". The Times of Israel, November 24, 2015. and opened Arabesque, an Arts and Residency Center in the heart of Old Acre, Israel, in 2016. Arabesque was destroyed in the May 2021 riots but was restored, and opened again to the public several months later.
Fallenberg has served as a judge or advisor to a number of literary prizes, including the Sami Rohr Prize and the Galtelli Literary Awards. He has received fellowships for residencies from the MacDowell Colony, the National Endowment for the Arts (at Vermont Studio Center), Fondation Ledig-Rowohlt (at Chateau de Lavigny, Switzerland), Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), Hannesarholt and Gunnarshus in Iceland, Sun Yat-sen University of China, and the Bogliasco Foundation (Italy), and has taken part in conferences and festivals around the globe.
Publications Novels Light Fell, New York: Soho, 2008. , When We Danced on Water, New York: Harper Perennial, 2011. , The Parting Gift, New York: Other Press, 2018. ,
Awards and honors 2007: National Jewish Book Award for fiction 2008: Finalist, Lambda Literary Award for Gay Debut Fiction 2009: American Library Association's Barbara Gittings Stonewall Book Award for Literature 2009: Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction
References
External links
Evan Fallenberg's Bar Ilan University homepage