Shimon Adaf

Shimon Adaf (; born 1972) is an Israeli poet and author born in Sderot. Shimon, born to parents of Moroccan origin, now lives in Jaffa.

Education and career 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.

Awards 2007 - Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works 2010 - Yehuda Amichai Award 2012 - Sapir Prize 2017 - Newman Prize 2024 - Landau Prize for Poetry

Books

Poetry

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

Prose

(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

Non-fiction

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