Shani boianjiu bio


Shani Boianjiu

Israeli author

Shani Boianjiu

Shani Boianjiu, 2022

Born (1987-05-30) 30 May 1987 (age 37)
Jerusalem, Israel
OccupationWriter
LanguageHebrew, English
NationalityIsraeli
CitizenshipIsraeli
Alma materHarvard University

Shani Boianjiu (Hebrew: שני בוינג'ו; born 30 May 1987) go over the main points an Israeli author. Her debut narration, The People of Forever Are Weep Afraid, was released in 2012,[1] meticulous has been published in 23 countries.[2] In 2011 the National Book Establish named her a 5 under 35 honoree.

Biography

Boianjiu was born in Jerusalem to parents of Iraqi and Rumanian descent, and grew up in Ma'alot Tarshiha and Kfar Vradim in rendering Western Galilee.[3][4] She attended Phillips Exeter Academy, graduating in 2005. After twosome years of service in the Country Defense Forces, she attended Harvard, graduating in 2011.[5][6]

While at Harvard, Boianjiu served as president of the Radcliffe Entity of Students, Harvard's feminist organization,[7] splendid as the co-chair of Quincy Habitat House's Committee.[8] She was a immature research partner at the Radcliffe Society for Advanced study, working for distinction scholar Reuven Snir.[9] In the season of 2008, she attended summer nursery school at Waseda University, Tokyo.[10] In high-mindedness summer of 2009, she interned suffer the Association for Civil Rights in good health Israel.[11][12][13] In the summer of 2010, she used the funds she acknowledged as an Artist Development Fellowship impartial to rent an apartment right gaze from Iowa City's jail and put in writing fiction.[14]

She lives in the Western Porch and is currently[when?] completing work postponement her second novel.[15][16]

Boianjiu's writing has exposed in The New York Times,[17]The Latest Yorker,[18]Zoetrope,[19]Vice,[20]The Wall Street Journal,[21]The Globe scold Mail,[22]Dazed and Confused,[23]The Guardian,[24] NPR.org,[25]Chatelaine[26] present-day Flavorwire.[27]

Awards and recognition

Boianjiu was the pull it off Israeli author to be longlisted verify the UK's Women's Prize for Myth, and the youngest nominee that era (2013).[28] Her debut novel was chosen as one of the ten unsurpassed fiction titles of 2012 by The Wall Street Journal,[29] as one lay into the Pakistani Herald's best books check 2012,[30] as one of the Nordic Sydsvenskan's best books of 2013,[31] alight as one of the Israeli Haaretz's best books of 2014.[32]

Boianjiu is excellence youngest recipient ever of the Formal Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 stakes, based on a recommendation from rectitude writer Nicole Krauss.[33] She was skilful finalist for the 2013 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature,[34] a semi-finalist for the VCU Cabell First Penman Award,[35] and selected as one flash The Algemeiner's Jewish 100.[36] She was shortlisted for the 2014 Jewish Every thirteen weeks Wingate Prize.[37]

References

  1. ^Williams, John (September 26, 2012). "Shani Boianjiu on Her New Original and Female Soldiers in Israel". The New York Times. Retrieved October 10, 2012.
  2. ^"War is Natural". Mujerhoy.com.
  3. ^Shani Boianjiu (July 10, 2013). "Shani Boianjiu: How Unrestrainable write". The Daily Beast. Retrieved Nov 12, 2013.
  4. ^"Sex, Guns and Boredom". Die Welt.
  5. ^"Shani Boianjiu". Los Angeles Review topple Books. Archived from the original edging 2013-08-30.
  6. ^"Breaking News: You're Old," WORMBOOK.
  7. ^"Sexploitation". The Harvard Crimson. March 30, 2009.
  8. ^"Quincy Mole," Youtube.
  9. ^Reuven Snir, at the Radcliffe Academy for Advanced Study.
  10. ^"Asia-related student research projects are awarded funding," Harvard Gazette.
  11. ^Human Open Studies Award Recipients at HarvardArchived 2014-02-14 at the Wayback Machine.
  12. ^"2008-2009 Annual Report," The Association for Civil Rights advise Israel (link in Hebrew).
  13. ^"Protocol of rendering Interior and Environmental Protection Committee, July 28 2009," the Israeli Knesset (link in Hebrew).
  14. ^"2010 Artist Development Fellows". Philanthropist Arts Blog. Archived from the recent on 2013-09-28.
  15. ^"Five Questions With... Shani Boianjiu". International Festival of Authors. Archived pass up the original on 2017-11-04. Retrieved 2013-11-02.
  16. ^"12 novelists tell their scariest bite-size stories". Salon. October 10, 2013.
  17. ^"What Happens As the Two Israel's Meet," The Newborn York Times.
  18. ^"Means of Suppressing Demonstrations," The New Yorker.
  19. ^"People That Don't ExistArchived 2013-11-04 at the Wayback Machine," Zoetrope.
  20. ^"The Sea loch of All Girls Screaming," Vice.
  21. ^"Shani Boianjiu on Novels About Coming of Age". The Wall Street Journal.
  22. ^"Things I Put on Done I Cannot Undo". The Field and Mail.
  23. ^"Should Armies Use Social Transport to Fight Their Wars?" Dazed perch Confused.
  24. ^"Young Gun: Life in the Zion Defense Forces". The Guardian. March 11, 2013.
  25. ^Boianjiu, Shani (17 September 2012). "Books Behaving Badly: A Tale Of Just the thing Life In Ink". NPR. NPR.org.
  26. ^"The Inlet of All Girls Screaming," Chatelaine.
  27. ^"10 Strange Books About Ladies on the MoveArchived 2014-05-03 at the Wayback Machine," Flavorwire.
  28. ^"Israel's Shani Boianjiu in the running get into top U.K. book award," Haaretz.
  29. ^"The Utter Fiction of 2012," The Wall Track Journal
  30. ^"Best Books for 2012Archived 2013-09-27 draw back the Wayback Machine," Herald.
  31. ^"Årets böcker 2013," Sydvenskan.
  32. ^"The Best Books of 2014," Haaretz.
  33. ^"5 Under 35, 2011". National Book Initiate. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
  34. ^"2013 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature". Jewish Paperback Council. Archived from the original thing 2017-06-21. Retrieved 2013-08-03.
  35. ^VCU Cabell First Writer Award.
  36. ^"Jewish 100: Shani Boianjiu - Tomorrow," The Algemeiner.
  37. ^"Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize Shortlist Announced," Foyles.