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Assaf Inbari

Assaf Inbari is an Israeli novelist, essayist and literary scholar, known for his novel Home about Kibbutz Afikim.

born 1968The novel HomeEssays on Hebrew literatureThe 2020 Agnon Prize

Born: 9 March 1968, Afikim
Occupation: writer, essayist, lecturer, literary scholar
Education: Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv University

Assaf Inbari was born in 1968 in Afikim

Assaf Inbari was born on March 9, 1968, on Kibbutz Afikim, the oldest of three children. His mother was born in Afikim to immigrants from Austria, and his father came from a family in Kfar Yehoshua. As a child he wrote, drew, played music and studied piano and composition.

In the army he moved from a combat unit to Army Radio, where he edited a morning show. At the same time he published stories and articles under several pen names. His first essay, on Amos Oz, appeared in 1988.

He studied at Tel Aviv University in the Adi Lautman program, writing a master's thesis on Nabokov in 2000. In 2008 he completed a doctorate on Bialik at Bar-Ilan University.

In 2009 he published his first novel, Home, a three-generation history of Afikim, followed by The Tank in 2018 and The Red Book in 2022. He writes essays on literature and Zionism and holds the Asper Chair in Zionist Studies at Shalem College in Jerusalem. He won the Prime Minister's Prize in 2019 and the Agnon Prize in 2020.

In 2005 he married Naomi. He lives on Kibbutz Degania B.