Appelfeld, Aron

Aharon Appelfeld has been exploring the existential themes of the Holocaust for more than forty years. He was eight when he witnessed the murder of his mother by the Nazis. After escaping from a concentration camp, he wandered alone in the forests for two years. When the war ended he joined the Soviet Army as a kitchen boy, eventually emigrating to Palestine in 1946. The author of eleven internationally acclaimed novels, including Badenheim 1939, The Age of Wonders, The Retreat, and Unto the Soul, he lives in Jerusalem, Israel.