Esther Bendahan
Esther Bendahan Cohen (born 1964 in Tétouan) is a Moroccan-Spanish writer. Her Moroccan Jewish family moved to Madrid when she was a child, where she studied Psychology and French Literature. She is the director of the television program Shalom (RTVE) and the organizer of Centro Sefarad-Israel.
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- Full name
- Esther Bendahan Cohen.
- Born
- 1964. · Tétouan.
- Nationality
- Spain and Morocco.
- Occupation
- writer, philologist, romanist and opinion journalist.
- Fields
- literature, Romance studies, French studies and opinion journalism.
- Languages
- Spanish.
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Au nom de l'Autre: Réflexions sur l'antisémitisme qui vient, Alain Finkielkraut, Seix Barral, 2005 (with Adolfo García Ortega).
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1964
Esther Bendahan born at Tétouan.
Books
Soñar con Hispania (Dreaming of Hispania) (with Ester Benari), Ediciones Tantín, 2002 La sombra y el mar (Shadow and Sea), Morales del Coso, 2003 Deshojando alcachofas (Putting the Leaves off Some Artichokes), Seix Barral, 2005 Déjalo, ya volveremos (Let It Be, We'll Come Back Some Day), Seix Barral, 2006, where she tells her childhood and the disintegration of Moroccan Jewish communities. La cara de Marte (Mars' Face), Algaida, 2007. El secreto de la reina persa (Persian Queen's Secret), La Esfera de los Libros, 2009 Tratado del alma gemela, Ediciones del Viento, 2012. Award: XXII Premio de Narrativa Gonzalo Torrente Ballester.
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Esther Bendahan, born in 1964 in Tétouan, is documented in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. The birth is recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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Premio Fnac, Deshojando alcachofas. Tigre Juan Award, 2006 with La cara de Marte Premio Torrente Ballester, 2011, El tratado del alma gemela.
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