Amir Gutfreund

Amir Gutfreund (; 23 July 1963 – 27 November 2015) was an Israeli writer and columnist for the Maariv newspaper.

Books 2000: Our Holocaust (novel, translated into German, English, French, Czech and Hungarian) 2002: אחוזות החוף Ahuzot HaHof or The Shoreline Mansions (short story collection) 2005:העולם, קצת אחר כך The World, a Little Later (novel) In English: The World a Moment Later (translated by Jessica Cohen, Toby Press) 2008: בשבילה גיבורים עפים Heroes Fly to Her / When Heroes Fly (novel) 2013: מזל עורב Crow 2014: אגדת ברונו ואדלה (Agadát Bruno VeAdela), The Legend of Bruno and Adela

Awards 2001: for Our Holocaust 2003: Sapir Prize for Ahuzot HaHof

Influence When Heroes Fly, Israeli drama TV series based on the novel Heroes Fly to Her. The series won Best Series at the first Canneseries Festival in April 2018. Echo 3, an English-language TV series based on the Israeli series The Matchmaker (2010 film) (, lit. "Once I Was", Once Upon a Time I Was), inspired by the novel When Heroes Fly