David Schütz is an Israel

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i fiction

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 writer.

Biography

David Schütz (birth name Dietmar Engbert Müllner) was born in Berlin

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 and immigrated to Israel

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 at the age of seven.

He has a Master Degree in History from The Hebrew University, and has also studied cinema at the BFI

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.

His first book "The Grass and the Sand" was published in 1978. The book was translated into French (L'herbe et le sable : roman) and into German (Gras und Sand : roman).

Schütz has published 9 books.

Awards

Schütz has received a number literary prizes, including:

• In 1988, he was awarded the Bernstein Prize
  Bernstein Prize
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   (original Hebrew novel category).

His Writing

David Schutz' experiences as a child and adolescent are central to his wiriting. His characters struggle with the aftermath of catastrophe of the Holocaust, suffering its consequences in their day-to-day existence, often from the stanpoint of a child. Schutz balances the more metaphysical elements of his writing with a solid grounding in time and place.

Published books

• L'herbe et le sable, novel; translated from Hebrew by Liliane Servier (Paris: Hachette, 1981)
• Gras und Sand, novel translated from Hebrew byJudith Brüll-Assan and Ruth Achlama (Hildesheim: Claassen, 1992)
• Das goldene Tagebuch, translated from Hebrew by Mirjam Pressler (Frankfurt/Main: Ali-Baba-Verlag , 1993)
• Trilogie des Abschieds, novel, from Hebrew by Barbara Linner (Hildesheim: Classen, 1993)
• Avischag, novel, from Hebrew by Mirjam Pressler (Hildesheim: Claassen, 1996)
• Das Herz der Wassermelone, German/Israeli edition, translated from Hebrew by Pavel C. Goldenberg. With an afterword by Wolf Biermann (Hildesheim: Claassen, 1995).

External links

• David Schuts in the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=224