Mifal Hapais introduced the 2025 Sapir Literary Award in Jerusalem on Monday evening to Amir Harash for his novel “Bereavement, Failure and Zombies.”
Harash acquired the highest honor at a ceremony held on the National Library of Israel, which hosted the award ceremony as a part of celebrations commemorating the award’s twenty fifth anniversary.
In the debut class, Roni Palczek received the Book of the Year first novel award for Sitara, printed by Gamma Tanger.
Mifal Hapais mentioned the primary prize winners will obtain NIS 180,000 and the profitable books will probably be translated into Arabic and extra international languages. The debut prize was NIS 75,000, and the opposite finalists in that observe acquired grants as nicely.
The occasion was hosted by singer and actress Estelle Rada and included musical performances throughout this system.
Harash’s profitable novel explores themes of grief and the lived expertise of Israel, whereas additionally relating the legacy of early Hebrew literature, based on a jury assertion launched by Mifal Hapais. The committee famous the e-book’s dialogue with the work of Yosef Chaim Brenner and the methods by which it connects fashionable Israel’s previous and current.
For the debut award, the judges described “Sitara” as a robust novel set in Nineteen Seventies India in the course of the state of emergency, which depicts the suppression of civil liberties and political upheaval by way of a novel cultural and non secular background, removed from the everyday panorama of contemporary Hebrew novels.
The National Library’s occasion web page lists 5 candidates for the primary prize: Aron Arad, Ilana Bernstein, Ofir Touche Ghafra, Harash, and Anat Einhal.
The Sapir Prize, introduced by Mifal Hapais and named after Pinhas Sapir, has been awarded yearly since 2000 and is well known as one of many nation’s most prestigious literary awards. In current years, the award has mixed help for translation and distribution with money grants, together with the acquisition of copies for public libraries.
Last 12 months’s predominant award went to Yossi Avni-Levy’s Three Days in Summer.
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