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Alex Epstein is an Israeli writer, known for his micro stories. He moved to Israel at the age of eight and lived with his family in the city of Lod. Epstein received his first publishing contract from Zamora-Bitan at 23.

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2016Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works
2003Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works

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Alex Epstein is an Israeli writer, known for his micro stories. He moved to Israel at the age of eight and lived with his family in the city of Lod. Epstein received his first publishing contract from Zamora-Bitan at 23. He has since published three novels and eight collections of stories in Hebrew, as well as numerous pieces in English-language journals including Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Guernica, JuxtaProse Literary Magazine, Zeek, Electric Literature, The Guardian, and The Collagist. His translations in Electric Literature were illustrated by renowned Israeli artist and animator, David Polonsky. Epstein has twice received the Israeli Prime Minister's Prize for Authors and Poets. Epstein lives in Tel Aviv and has served as a writer-in-residence for the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and as a Schusterman Family Foundation Artist-in-Residence at the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado (2010). In 2010 he took part of the PEN World Voices Festival in New York, he was featured in a panel with other writers such as Claire Messud, Lorraine Adams, Norman Rush, Yiyun Li and Aleksandar Hemon.

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Israel
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Writers
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Writer / Author
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Born 1971 · age 54
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