Ehud Havazelet

American novelist and short story writer

Ehud Havazelet
Born	(1955-07-13)July 13, 1955 Jerusalem, Israel
Died	November 5, 2015(2015-11-05) (aged 60) Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American
Genre	Literary fiction

Ehud Havazelet (July 13, 1955 – November 5, 2015) was an American novelist and short story writer.

Ehud Havazelet was born in Jerusalem, Israel. His father, Meir Havazelet, a rabbi and emeritus professor at Yeshiva University, emigrated to the United States in 1957.^[1] He graduated from Columbia University in 1977, and received an M.F.A at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop in 1984. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University from 1984 to 1989. He taught creative writing at Oregon State University from 1989 to 1999. He began teaching at the University of Oregon in 1999 and held the position of Professor of Creative Writing at the time of his death in 2015.^[2]^[3]

Honors

Pushcart Prize, 1988
California Book Award, 1988
Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, 1988
Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship, 1990
Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship, 1994
Whiting Award, 1999
Oregon Book Award for fiction, 1999
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, 2000
Guggenheim Fellowship, 2001
Edward Lewis Wallant Award, 2007
Oregon Book Award for fiction, 2008
University of Oregon Fund for Faculty Excellence Award, 2008
The Best American Short Stories, 2011

Works

Books

What Is It Then Between Us? (short stories), Scribner, 1988.
Like Never Before, (short stories), Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998.
Bearing the Body, (novel), Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007.

Anthologies

"Gurov in Manhattan". The Best American Short Stories 2011. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2011. ISBN 978-0-547-24208-8. best american short stories 2011.
- (Originally published in TriQuarterly)

Short stories

"Law of Return". Ploughshares. Emerson College. Winter 2007–2008.

References

^ Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008. Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008.
^ "Ehud Havazelet." Writers Directory, 24th ed. St. James Press, 2008
^ "Ehud Havazelet, Oregon Book Award winner and UO professor, died Nov. 5". OregonLive.com. 7 November 2015.