Evan Fallenberg

Evan Fallenberg is the author of three novels: Light Fell (2008); When We Danced on Water (2011); and The Parting Gift (2018). His selected translations include novels, stage plays and screenplays.  His novels and translations have won or been shortlisted for a number of prizes, including the American Library Association Stonewall/Barbara Gittings Book Award for Literature; the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction; the National Jewish Book Award for fiction; the PEN Translation Prize; and the Times Literary Supplement Prize for the Translation of Hebrew Literature.  Fallenberg was a guest faculty member of the MFA program in creative writing at City University of Hong Kong and is now faculty co-director of the low-residency International MFA program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation at Vermont College of Fine Arts.  The recipient of residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the National Endowment for the Arts, Fondation Ledig-Rowohlt, Banff Centre for the Arts and Sun Yat-sen University, he is the founder and artistic director of Arabesque: An Arts & Residency Center in Old Acre, and artistic director of the Translation Residency program at Mishkenot Shaananim, Jerusalem.