S. K. Azoulay

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Shay K. Azoulay
Born (1979-12-24) December 24, 1979 (age 38)
Tel Aviv
Occupation novelist, playwright, translator
Nationality Israeli
Citizenship Israel
Period 2000–present
Genre Literary Fiction
Website
skazoulay.wixsite.com/skazoulay/

Shay K. Azoulay (Hebrew : שי אזולאי‎) is an Israeli writer who writes in English and Hebrew.

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Plays

Azoulay's debut play, "The Platoon", a satire about the IDF, won first place in the 2012 staged reading festival "Zav Kriah". [1] The play was staged in Tel Aviv's Tzavtah Theater in 2014-2015 and received good reviews in the press, including a review by prominent theater critic Michael Handelzalts, who compared it to the work of Hanoch Levin. [2] The play also stirred controversy, following an article which mistakenly claimed that the play depicts IDF soldiers raping Palestinian women. A member of the Tel Aviv municipal council sent a letter to the theater, demanding that they stop the staging of the play. [3] Azoulay's other work includes the one-act play "Shade", which participated in the Tzavtah Theater's 2012 Short play Festival, and "Barabas" - a reimagining of Christopher Marlowe's "The Jew of Malta".

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Short stories

Azoulay is currently at work on a series of short stories entitled "Minor Writers of the Entropic Age". These stories include "The Invention of H. P. Lovecraft", published in Flapperhouse Magazine, [4] "The Bard of Hastings" published in The Cost of Paper [5] and "Permaculture", which won second prize in the 2016 Zoetrope: All-Story short fiction contest. [6] Also included in this series is "Jacob Wallenstein, Notes for a Future Biography", a work of fiction regarding a "forgotten" Israeli science fiction novelist and his 1,000 page magnum opus. In 2013 Azoulay submitted this story to Tablet magazine, claiming that it was a true account of the nonexistent writer's life and work. An editor at the magazine was initially excited by the story, but eventually discovered that it was a hoax, though he decided to publish the story anyway, together with a forward explaining his discovery of the hoax. [7]

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Other short works by Azoulay have appeared in The Molotov Cocktail and McSweeney's Internet Tendency .

Translations

Azoulay also works as a Hebrew to English translator, translating non-fiction, [8] children's literature, and plays, including works by playwright Hanoch Levin. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ IDF Satire wins first prize - Ynet , 1 April 2012 (in Hebrew)
  2. ↑ "The Platoon" - Princes of the Washtub - Haaretz , 18 January 2015 (in Hebrew)
  3. ↑ Senior Tel Aviv Council Member: Tzavtah is Demeaning the IDF - Ynet, 6 January 2015 (in Hebrew)
  4. ↑ The Invention of H. P. Lovecraft - Flapperhouse Magazine, Fall 2016.
  5. ↑ The Bard of Hastings - The Cost of Paper Vol. 5, Spring 2018.
  6. ↑ Twentieth Annual Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Contest - List of winners, Zoetrope: All-Story
  7. ↑ Jacob Wallenstein Is the Greatest Science-Fiction Writer to Never Have Lived - Tablet Magazine, 16 October 2013
  8. ↑ Yom Kippur War: Syrians at the Border by Danny Asher
  9. ↑ Job and Jesus Combine to Overcome - New York Times review of 2006 production of Hanoch Levin's Job's Passion translated by Azoulay
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