Aharon Appelfeld

Aharon Appelfeld
Appelfeld at a conference in Espace culturel Cité, Luxembourg City, 2014.
Born	(1932-02-16)February 16, 1932 Jadova, Romania (now Ukraine)
Died	January 4, 2018(2018-01-04) (aged 85) Mevaseret Zion, Jerusalem
Occupation	Novelist
Language	Hebrew
Citizenship	Israeli
Alma mater	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Notable awards	Bialik Prize Israel Prize National Jewish Book Award Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Prix Médicis Nelly Sachs Prize

Aharon Appelfeld (Hebrew: אהרן אפלפלד; born Ervin Appelfeld; February 16, 1932 – January 4, 2018) was a Romanian-born Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor. He lived in Mevaseret Zion and taught literature at Ben Gurion University of the Negev and was often writing in Jerusalem's Ticho House (Beit Ticho).

In 2007, Appelfeld's Badenheim 1939 was adapted for the stage and performed at the Gerard Behar Center in Jerusalem.

In 1941, when he was nine years old, the Romanian Army retook his hometown after a year of Soviet occupation and his mother was murdered. Appelfeld was deported with his father to a Nazi concentration camp in Romanian-controlled Transnistria. He escaped and hid for three years before joining the Soviet army as a cook.