Darkness: at the time, Appelfeld was the oldest ever recipient of the prize 2016 Sydney Taylor Book Award for the children's book "Adam and Thomas" Cultural references Appelfeld's work was greatly admired by his friend, fellow Jewish novelist Philip Roth, who made the Israeli writer a character in his own novel Operation Shylock. Published works Badenheim 1939 (1978, English translation: 1980) The Age of Wonders (1978, tr. 1981) Tzili (1982, tr. 1983) The Retreat (tr. 1984) To the Land of the Cattails (tr. 1986) (earlier published as To the Land of the Reeds) The Immortal Bartfuss (1988) For Every Sin (tr. 1989) The Healer (tr. 1990) Katerina (1989, tr. 1992) Iron Tracks (1991, tr. 1998) Unto the Soul (tr. 1993) The Conversion (1991, tr. 1998) Laish (2001, tr. 2009) Beyond Despair: Three Lectures and a Conversation With Philip Roth (tr. 2003) The Story of a Life: A Memoir (2003) A Table For One: Under The Light Of Jerusalem (tr. 2005) All Whom I Have Loved (tr. 2007) Blooms of Darkness (2006, tr. 2010) Until the Dawn’s Light (1995, tr. 2011) Yalda Shelo Minhaolam Hazé = A girl from another world (fiction for children) (2013, not yet tr. in English), (published in French, Italian, 2014) Suddenly Love (tr. 2014) Long Summer Nights (2015) Adam and Thomas (fiction for children) (2015) The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping (2017) To the Edge of Sorrow (2012, tr. 2020) See also Hebrew literature List of Bialik Prize recipients List of Israel Prize recipients References External links Interview with Appelfeld on his habit of writing at cafes Tablet (Magazine), nextbook.org "A Cafe Should Give Inspiration" Aharon Appelfeld on Ticho House, Jerusalem Haaretz.com Biography from the Berlin International Literature Festival 1932 births 2018 deaths People from Chernivtsi Oblast Academic staff of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Brenner Prize recipients Hebrew-language poets Israel Prize in literature recipients Israeli autobiographers Israeli novelists Israeli poets Jewish Israeli writers Jewish concentration camp survivors Romanian Ashkenazi Jews Israeli Ashkenazi Jews Prix Médicis étranger winners Romanian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Israeli people of Romanian-Jewish descent Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Yiddish-speaking people Recipients of Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works