Nir Baram – Good People  Friday 30 November 2012 at 14.00 hrs

Israeli author Nir Baram interviewed by Daphne Meijer / Book signing

Nir Baram (Jerusalem, 1976) is a young Israeli writer who published his fourth novel Good People in 2010. It is the first historical novel written by an Israeli author, which tackles the Second World War and its themes from the perspective of collaborators. The novel appeared on the Israeli bestseller list for four months and received extraordinary praise from critics and authors. To this date translation rights for Good people were sold to 14 languages. In 2010 Baram won the Prime Minister's Award for Hebrew literature and Good people was shortlisted for the Sapir Prize. The Dutch translation was published by De Bezige Bij in October 2012 and translated by Hilde Pach.

The Dutch Foundation for Literature and the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts invited Nir Baram to stay and work in the Writer's Residency above the Athenaeum Bookshop at Spui for the month of November.

Daphne Meijer (Amsterdam, 1961) is a writer and journalist and has been writing about Jewish history and culture for many years. Her debut novel Remains of the century was published in 1993.

Good People reviewed:

'A rich, adventurous, and touching epos. A modern Israeli classic.' - Haaretz

'This is how Dostojevski would write if he was living in Israel at this time.' - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

'This novel widens the boundaries of literature en opens new possibilities.'- Amos Oz

'Good people is a daring, brilliant novel. This is the future for Israeli literature.' - A.B Yehoshua

In association with Nederlands Letterenfonds/Dutch Foundation for Literature, Crescas, Embassy of Israel and Joods Cultureel Kwartier.

Location: JHM Auditorium, please register at the cash desk.
Admission: Free upon presentation of your ticket to the Jewish Cultural Quarter.
Registration: E evenementen or T +31 (0)20 5 310 380.