Esther Bendahan
Encyclopedia
Esther Bendahan Cohen is a Moroccan
-Spanish
writer.
Her Sephardic Moroccan
family went to Madrid when she was a child, in this city she studied Psychology and French Literature. She is the director of the television program «Shalom» (RTVE
) and the organizer of Casa Sefarad-Israel.
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
-Spanish
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
writer.
Her Sephardic Moroccan
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
family went to Madrid when she was a child, in this city she studied Psychology and French Literature. She is the director of the television program «Shalom» (RTVE
RTVE
The Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española, S.A. or Corporación Radiotelevisión Española is the state-owned public corporation that assumed the indirect management of the Spanish public radio and television service from Ente Público Radiotelevisión Española in 2007...
) and the organizer of Casa Sefarad-Israel.
Books
- Soñar con Hispania (Dreaming of Hispania) (with Ester Benari), Ediciones Tantín, 2002
- La sombra y el mar(Shadow and Sea), Morales del Coso, 2003
- Deshojando alcachofas(Putting the Leaves off Some Artichokes), Seix Barral, 2005
- Déjalo, ya volveremos(Let It Be, We'll Come Back Some Day), Seix Barral, 2006 where she tells her childhood and the disintegration of Moroccan Jewish communities.
- La cara de Marte(Mars' Face), Algaida, 2007.
- El secreto de la reina persa(Persian Queen's Secret), La Esfera de los Libros, 2009
- Pene, Ediciones Ambulantes, 2011.An interesting work against submission, presented as a dialogue with the work The chest from Philip Roth.
Prizes
- Premio Fnac, Deshojando alcachofas.
- Premio Tigre Juan, 2006 with La cara de Marte
- Premio Torrente ballester, 2011 , El tratado del alma gemela.
Translations
- Au nom de l'Autre: Réflexions sur l'antisémitisme qui vient , Alain FinkielkrautAlain FinkielkrautAlain Finkielkraut is a French essayist, and son of a Jewish-Polish manufacturer of fine leather goods who had been deported to Auschwitz and survived. He currently teaches at the École polytechnique as professor of the "history of ideas and modernity" in the department of humanities and social...
, Seix Barral, 2005 (with Adolfo García Ortega).