Osama, written by what Israeli-born writer, won the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel beating out a novel about a time traveler who attempts to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy written by Stephen King?
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Lavie Tidhar Lavie Tidhar (Hebrew: לביא תדהר‎ ‎ ) (born 16 November 1976) is an Israeli-born writer, working across multiple genres. He has lived in the United Kingdom and South Africa for long periods of time, as well as Laos and Vanuatu. As of 2013, Tidhar lives in London. His novel "Osama" won the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, beating Stephen King's "11/22/63" and George R. R. Martin's "A Dance with Dragons". His novel "A Man Lies Dreaming" won the £5000 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize, for Best British Fiction, in 2015. He won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 2017, for "Central Station".
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11/22/63 11/22/63 is a novel by Stephen King about a time traveler who attempts to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which occurred on November 22, 1963 (the novel's titular date). It's the 60th book published by Stephen King, it is his 49th novel and the 42nd under his own name. The novel was announced on King's official site on March 2, 2011. A short excerpt was released online on June 1, 2011, and another excerpt was published in the October 28, 2011, issue of "Entertainment Weekly". The novel was published on November 8, 2011 and quickly became a number-one bestseller. It stayed on The New York Times Best Seller list for 16 weeks. "11/22/63" won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the 2012 International Thriller Writers Award for Best Novel, and was nominated for the 2012 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel and the 2012 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
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Osamu Dazai Osamu Dazai (太宰 治 , Dazai Osamu , June 19, 1909 – June 13, 1948) was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan. A number of his most popular works, such as "The Setting Sun" ("Shayō") and "No Longer Human" ("Ningen Shikkaku"), are considered modern-day classics in Japan. With a semi-autobiographical style and transparency into his personal life, Dazai’s stories have intrigued the minds of many readers. His books also bring about awareness to a number of important topics such as human nature, mental illness, social relationships, and postwar Japan.
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Sky Dragons Sky Dragons is a science fiction novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey and her son Todd McCaffrey in the "Dragonriders of Pern" series that she initiated in 1967. Published by Del Rey Ballantine and released July 2012, "Sky Dragons" is the sequel to "Dragon's Time".
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Rand al'Thor Rand al'Thor, also known as the Dragon Reborn, is the main character and protagonist of "The Wheel of Time", a series of fantasy novels by Robert Jordan.
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Ōsama Game Ōsama Game (王様ゲーム , Ōsama Gemu , trans. "King Game") is a cell phone novel written by (pen name: Pakkuncho), consisting of five volumes. A film based on the novel was released in 2011, and directed by Norio Tsuruta. The theme song of the film is "Amazuppai Haru ni Sakura Saku" by Berryz Kobo and Cute.
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The Philosopher Kings (novel) The Philosopher Kings is a fantasy/science fiction novel by the Welsh-Canadian author Jo Walton, published by Tor Books in June 2015. It is the second book of the "Thessaly trilogy", sequel to "The Just City", which was published a mere six months previously, and followed by "Necessity", which was published in 2016.
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A War of Shadows A War of Shadows is a non-fiction book written by W. Stanley Moss, a British soldier, writer and traveller, best known, together with Patrick Leigh Fermor, for the Kidnap of General Kreipe as described in Moss’s book "Ill Met by Moonlight". Moss recounts his subsequent activities during World War II as agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Crete, Macedonia (Greece) and Siam (Thailand). The 2014 editions contain an Introduction by one of Moss's children and a short biography, "Billy Moss: Soldier, Writer, Traveller - A Brief Life" by Alan Ogden as an Afterword.
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Yair Nehorai Yair Nehorai is an Israeli lawyer and author, best known for his novel "Taliban Son" (Hebrew: וַתְּהִי-לִי אִמִּי קִבְרִי; the Hebrew title is taken from Jeremiah 20:17) and for representing a series of high-profile cases involving the most extreme religious groups in Israel.
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Knife of Dreams Knife of Dreams is a fantasy novel by American author Robert Jordan, the eleventh book in his series "The Wheel of Time". It was published by Tor Books in the U.S. and Orbit in the UK and released on October 11, 2005. Upon its release, it immediately rose to the #1 position on the "New York Times" hardcover fiction bestseller list, making it the fourth consecutive "Wheel of Time" book to reach the #1 position on that list. "Knife of Dreams" is 784 pages long, including a glossary. It has a prologue, 37 chapters, and an epilogue.
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David Higham Prize for Fiction The David Higham Prize for Fiction was inaugurated in 1975 to mark the 80th birthday of David Higham, literary agent, and was awarded annually to a citizen of the Commonwealth, Republic of Ireland, Pakistan, or South Africa for a first novel or book of short stories. It was cancelled in 1999 due to "the lack of publicity its winners received."
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Mark of Cain (novel) The Mark of Cain is a bestselling novel by Israeli author Ram Oren. it is based on Neo-Nazi activities in Argentina and the identity of a Mossad chief, Michael Bornstein.
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The People of Forever Are Not Afraid The People of Forever Are Not Afraid is a novel by the Israeli writer Shani Boianjiu, published in 2012.
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Eric James Stone Eric James Stone (born 1967) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror author. He won the 2004 Writers of the Future contest, and has published in "Analog Science Fiction and Fact", "InterGalactic Medicine Show", and "Jim Baen's Universe". His 2010 novelette, "That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made," won the Nebula Award for Best Novelette and was a finalist for the Hugo Award.
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The Child in Time The Child in Time (1987) is a novel by Ian McEwan. It won the Whitbread Novel Award for that year. The story concerns Stephen, an author of children's books, and his wife, two years after the kidnapping of their three-year-old daughter Kate. Author Christopher Hitchens viewed the novel as McEwan's masterpiece.
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Midnight on the Mavi Marmara Midnight on the Mavi Marmara is a book from 2010 edited by Moustafa Bayoumi. It was written after the Israeli attack on the "Mavi Marmara". The book includes contributions by Noam Chomsky, Stephen Kinzer, Alice Walker and Stephen M. Walt.
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Stephen King bibliography The following is a complete list of books published by Stephen King, an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many of them have been adapted into feature films, television movies and comic books. King has published 56 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books. He has written nearly 200 short stories, most of which have been compiled in book collections. Many of his stories are set in his home state of Maine.
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Ayman Sikseck Ayman Sikseck (or Ayman Siksik or Ayman Siksek, Arabic: أيمن سكسك‎ ‎ , Hebrew: איימן סיכסק‎ ‎ ; born 1984, Jafa) is an Israeli-Arab author, literary critic and Opinion journalist, who writes in Hebrew. His successful debut novel, "To Jaffa", was published in 2010. He writes for the "Ha'aretz" newspaper. Siksek won the National Library of Israel's 2013/2014 scholarship to encourage young Israeli writers.
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Abdo Khal Ryan Stone cold (born 1962) is an author from Saudi Arabia and the winner of the 2010 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
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Saruman Saruman the White is a fictional character and a major antagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel "The Lord of the Rings". He is leader of the Istari, wizards sent to Middle-earth in human form by the godlike Valar to challenge Sauron, the main antagonist of the novel, but eventually he desires Sauron's power for himself and tries to take over Middle-earth by force. His schemes feature prominently in the second volume, "The Two Towers", and at the end of the third volume, "The Return of the King". His earlier history is given briefly in the posthumously published "The Silmarillion" and "Unfinished Tales".
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Joe Gores Joseph Nicholas "Joe" Gores (born December 25, 1931, in Rochester, Minnesota, United States; died January 10, 2011, in Greenbrae, California) was an American mystery writer. He was known best for his novels and short stories set in San Francisco and featuring the fictional "Dan Kearney and Associates" (the "DKA Files") private investigation firm specializing in repossessing cars, a thinly veiled escalation of his own experiences as a confidential sleuth and repo man. Gores was also recognized for his novels "Hammett" (1975; made into the 1982 film "Hammett"), "Spade & Archer" (the 2009 prequel to Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon") and his Edgar Award-winning or -nominated works, such as "A Time of Predators", "32 Cadillacs" and "Come Morning".
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Khaled Hosseini Khaled Hosseini (Persian: خالد حسینی‎ ‎ ] ; ; born March 4, 1965) is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician. After graduating from college, he worked as a doctor in California, an occupation that he likened to "an arranged marriage." He has published three novels, most notably his 2003 debut "The Kite Runner", all of which are at least partially set in Afghanistan and feature an Afghan as the protagonist. Following the success of "The Kite Runner" he retired from medicine to write full-time.