Assaf Gavron was Born in 1968, and published five novels (Ice, Moving, Almost Dead, Hydromania and The Hilltop), a collection of short stories (Sex in the cemetery), and a non-fiction collection of Jerusalem falafel-joint reviews (Eating Standing Up).His fiction has been translated into German, Russian, Italian, French, English, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Bulgarian. His latest novel is The Hilltop (Scribner, 2014).Among the awards he won are the Israeli Prime Minister's Creative Award for Authors, the Israeli Bernstein Prize for The Hilltop, the DAAD artists-in-Berlin fellowship in Germany, the Buch Fur Die Stadt award in Germany for Almost Dead and the Prix Courrier International award in France for the same novel.His fiction was adapted for the stage in Habima - Israel's national theatre, and four of his novels are under option to be adapted to film and TV.As a translator of fiction, Gavron is responsible for the highly-regarded English-to-Hebrew translations of J.D. Salinger's Nine Stories, Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint and Jonathan Safran Foer's novels, among others. He also co-translated his own novel Almost Dead from Hebrew to English.