Shimon Adaf

• Name — Shimon Adaf • Citizenship — Israel • Occupation — Poetic and Author

Shimon Adaf's first book of poetry, Icarus' Monologue, won a prize from the Israeli Ministry of Education. In 1996–2000, Adaf studied at Tel Aviv University, simultaneously writing articles on literature, film and rock music for Israeli newspapers. In 2000–2005, he worked as a prose editor for Keter Publishing House. He is currently the chair person of the creative writing program at Ben Gurion University in Israel. In 2013, he won Israel's prestigious Sapir Prize for his novel Mox Nox. He was interviewed on the Shaping Business Minds Through Art podcast in 2020.

• Icarus' Monologue, 1997 • That Which I Thought Shadow Is the Real Body, 2002 • Aviva-No, 2009

(All titles given in approximate English translation) • One Mile and Two Days Before Sunset, 2004 • The Buried Heart, 2007 • Sunburnt Faces, 2008 • Frost, 2010 • Mox Nox, 2011 • Undercities, 2012 • The Wedding Gifts, 2014 • Detective's Complaint, 2015 • Shadrach, 2017 • Rise and Call, 2017 • I Loved Loving, 2019

• Art and War, 2016 (with Lavie Tidhar) • I am others, 2018

Shimon Adaf is recorded with the occupation literary critic. Recorded as having received Sapir Prize for Literature, Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works and The Yehuda Amichai Prize. Recognition and collections. Adaf received Sapir Prize for Literature, Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works, The Yehuda Amichai Prize, Newman Prize and Michael Landau Prize.