Esther Bendahan

Esther Bendahan Cohen (Tétouan, 1964) is a Moroccan-Spanish writer.

Her Moroccan Jewish family went to Madrid when she was a child, in this city she studied Psychology and French Literature. She is the director of the television program Shalom (RTVE) and the organizer of Centro Sefarad-Israel.

Books
  • Soñar con Hispania (Dreaming of Hispania) (with Ester Benari), Ediciones Tantín, 2002
  • La sombra y el mar (Shadow and Sea), Morales del Coso, 2003
  • Deshojando alcachofas (Putting the Leaves off Some Artichokes), Seix Barral, 2005
  • Déjalo, ya volveremos (Let It Be, We'll Come Back Some Day), Seix Barral, 2006, where she tells her childhood and the disintegration of Moroccan Jewish communities.
  • La cara de Marte (Mars' Face), Algaida, 2007.
  • El secreto de la reina persa (Persian Queen's Secret), La Esfera de los Libros, 2009
  • Tratado del alma gemela, Ediciones del Viento, 2012. Award: XXII Premio de Narrativa Gonzalo Torrente Ballester.

Prizes
  • Premio Fnac, Deshojando alcachofas.
  • Tigre Juan Award, 2006 with La cara de Marte[1]
  • Premio Torrente ballester, 2011, El tratado del alma gemela.

Translations
  • Au nom de l'Autre: Réflexions sur l'antisémitisme qui vient , Alain Finkielkraut, Seix Barral, 2005 (with Adolfo García Ortega).

References
  1. Neira, Susana (16 December 2006). "Esther Bendahan se hace con el Tigre Juan con la novela 'La cara de Marte'" [Esther Bendahan Takes the Tigre Juan with the Novel 'La cara de Marte']. El Comercio (in Spanish). Oviedo. Retrieved 4 September 2018.


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