won the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize for Best British Fiction, was twice longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger Award and the Rome Prize. He co-wrote Art and War: Poetry, Pulp and Politics in Israeli Fiction, and is a columnist for the Washington Post.
Tidhar's latest work is Maror, "a novel that attempts to write an Israel that couldn’t be written from within."
At the Guardian he tagged ten books that answer the question How does one write of Israel? differently. One title on the list:
The Simulacra by Philip K DickRead about another entry on the list.
I grew up on a kibbutz, on a diet of translated American science fiction, and never saw myself reflected until I read Philip K Dick. My favourite remains The Simulacra, one of his more obscure, mid-period novels bursting with invention, with its time-travelling Israelis and kibbutzim on Mars. Dick’s books gave me the confidence to eventually write my own.
--Marshal Zeringue
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