04/11/2011
The Prix Medicis to David Grossman
David Grossman receives the 2011 Prix Medicis. The Frech edition of his novel TO THE END OF THE LAND was unanimously selected in the category of best foreign fiction.
04/10/2011
New Novel by Uri Levron
Congratulations to Uri Levron on the publication of his new novel THE WRONG KID (Keter, 2011). Following the best-seller ACCIDENTAL PROOF this new novel proves to be a page turner on it’s own. For more on the book please check out the author’s page on this site.

Uri Levron’s page
03/10/2011
New Autumn Catalogue
Our 2011 Autumn catalogue is now available on our website: new books by authors such as David Grossman, Iris Leal and Gershon Gorenberg.
22/09/2011
David Grossman receives the Terenci Moix Award
David Grossman receives in Barcelona the 2011 Terenci Moix International award for literature for his novel TO THE END OF THE LAND.
20/07/2011
Sayed Kashua Wins the Bernstein Prize
Sayed Kashua wins the 2011 Bernstein Prize for his latest novel SECOND PERSON. The jury proclaimed the novel to be a ”fascinating and satirical look at Israeliness and especially the Arab-Israeli mind, a topic that has barely been reflected in Hebrew literature”. The Bernstein Prize was established in 1978. Past winners include Yaakov Shabtai, Amos Oz, David Grossman, Meir Shalev, Ronit Matalon, Assaf Shor, Dror Burstein, Sami Bardugo and Yuval Shimoni.

Kashua Wins Bernstein Prize
09/06/2011
David Grossman Wins the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize
David Grossman’s TO THE END OF THE LAND wins this year’s Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize. This prize was previously won by authors such as Zadie Smith, W G Sebald and Oliver Sacks. Grossman’s latest book FALLING OUT OF TIME recently appeared in Hebrew.

Grossman wins Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize
26/05/2011
A New Book by David Grossman
FALLING OUT OF TIME, David Grossman’s newest book, will be released next month. In this moving, untraditional piece, Grossman daringly attempts to find adequate words for a tragic personal loss.

New book by Grossman
04/05/2011
Sayed Kashua in Chinese
The rights to Sayed Kashua’s novel SECOND PERSON were sold in both Taiwan and China. Kashua’s novel is to be published in Chinese Complex by Crown (Taiwan) and in Chinese Simplex by Horizon (China). The latter is the publisher of well known authors such as Khaled Hosseini and Orhan Pamuk.
01/05/2011
Rutka’s Notebook in German
Published by Aufbau Publishing House, Rutka’s Notebook, a touching diary of a teenage Holocaust victim,is now available in German. Originally written in Polish, Rutka’s Notebook has already been published in about a dozen languages, including French, Dutch and Japanese.
20/03/2011
Yirmi Pinkus sold in France
PROFESSOR FABRIKANT’S HISTORICAL CABARET was recently sold to Grasset, France. In this book Yirmi Pinkus tells a compelling tale of an incredible inheritance and the door it opens to a lost world. This unique, richly-imagined, novel is filled with Jewish humor, spicy Yiddish rants and gentle love for the aging. It brings to life a portion of pre-Holocaust Jewish European Culture in modern, hilarious and often heartbreaking ways.
23/02/2011
Meir Shalev and Ian McEwan at the JIBF
This year’s winner of the Jerusalem Prize, Ian McEwan, met for a talk with Meir Shalev at the Jerusalem International Book Fair literary café which hosted more intimate talks between writers during the fair. This talk, which drew an exceptionally large crowd, revolved around politics, freedom of speech, humor and writing. In spite of an attempt, by a few young protestors, to disrupt the event, Shalev and McEwan’s thought-provoking discussion went on, inspired much laughter and was an overall success.
21/02/2011
Congratulations to Deborah Harris for receiving the Friend of Jerusalem award
Congratulations to Deborah. At an official ceremony, to be held in Jerusalem’s City Hall, she will receive today the 2011 Friend of Jerusalem award as part of the 25th International Book Fair.
2011 Friend of Jerusalem award

Award to Deborah included in the PW summary of the Fair
20/02/2011
New Catalogue
With the opening of the 25th Jerusalem International Book Fair we introduce a new catalogue for Spring 2011.
16/02/2011
Sayed Kashua among Sapir Prize short listers
Sayed Kashua’s latest novel, Second Person , is among the five finalists nominated for the esteemed Sapir Prize (the Israeli equivalent to the Booker award). This critically acclaimed novel was also recently sold to Grove for publication in the USA.
Short listers announcemnet
26/01/2011
National Book Critics Circle Finalists 2010
The National Book Critics Circle has announced the finalists for its 2010 book awards. Among these finalists are two authors represented by the Deborah Harris Agency:

TO THE END OF THE LAND by David Grossman in the fiction category, and in the biography category, SIMON WIESENTHAL: THE LIVES AND LEGENDS by Tom Segev.

Included among the finalists are several books we’ve sold in Israel: Jonathan Franzen’s FREEDOM, Hans Keilson’s COMEDY IN A MINOR KEY, and Barbara Demick’s NOTHING TO ENVY: ORDINARY LIVES IN NORTH KOREA. Hebrew rights to Kai Bird’s CROSSING MANDELBAUM GATE: COMING OF AGE BETWEEN THE ARABS AND THE ISRAELIS, 1956-1978 are still available.

National Book Critics Circle Awards: Finalists Announcement
13/01/2011
David Grossman wins the National Jewish Book Award for 2010
The Jewish Book Council announced the winners of the 2010 National Jewish Book Awards, the longest-running North American awards program of its kind in the field of Jewish literature. Grossman’s novel To the End of the Land is the winner in the fiction category of this prestigious award.

Jewish Book Award Announcement
10/01/2011
Foreign Rights Sales in 2010 (a partial list)
In 2010, the foreign rights department of the Deborah Harris Agency has sold in Israel rights to works by leading authors from around the world, including the winners of the Nobel Prize and the German Book Prize, and many more bestselling and critically-acclaimed books. This is a partial list of our sales this past year!


Melinda Nadj Abonji, Jung & Jung Verlag
Thomas Bernhard, Suhrkamp Verlag
Sandra Brown, Maria Carvainis
Ken Bruen, Authors Rights & Philip Spitzer
Andrea Camilleri, Mondadori
Philippe Claudel, Editions Stock
Jonathan Coe, Tony Peake
Eoin Colfer, O’Brien Books
Julio Cortazar, Carmen Balcells
Michael Cunningham, Brandt & Hochman
Arne Dahl, Salomonsson Agency
Edmund de Waal, Felicity Bryan
Demi, Marshall Cavendish Publishers
Barbara Demick, Sterling Lord
Nora Ephron, Knopf
Marcelo Figueras, Ray Gude Mertin Nicole Witt
Jonathan Franzen, Susan Golomb
Daniel Glattauer, Zsolnay Verlag
Peter James, Blake Friedmann
Hans Keilson, Fischer
Mario Vargas Llosa, Carmen Ballcels
Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Grandi
Eduardo Mendoza, Carmen Balcells
Deon Meyer, Blake Friedmann
Michela Murgia, Einaudi
Jo Nesbo, Salomonsson Agency
Brian Lee O’Malley, Regal Literary
Claudia Pineiro, Ray Gude Mertin Nicole Witt
Alessandro Piperno, Mondadori
Jonathan Raab, FSG
David Remnick, Robbins Office
Rick Riordan, Nancy Gallt
Lane Smith, Roaring Brook/MacMillan Books for Children
Leonie Swann, Piper & Poppenhusen
Jachym Topol, Suhrkamp Verlag
Scott Turow, Brandt & Hochman
Enrique Vila-Matas, MB Agencia Literaria
Gabrielle Zevin, Sterling Lord Literistic


06/12/2010
Wisenthal on New York Times Dwight Garner’s Top 10 Books of 2010
Tom Segev’s biography of Simon Wisenthal was recommended by the New York Times reviewer as one of the best non-fiction works in 2010.Garner called the book “a meticulous and forceful biography of the legendary Nazi hunter, a man who led one of the 20th century’s most interesting lives”.

The New York Times review
05/12/2010
Grossman’s To the End of the Land Tops End-of-the-Year lists in the US and Britain
Grossman’s novel recently made Amazon’s Top 10 books of 2010 and reached the first place on Barnes and Noble’s list. Amazon editors described To the End of the Land as “a book of mourning for those not dead, a mother’s lament for life during a wartime that has no end in sight. At the same time, it’s joyously and almost painfully alive, full to the point of rupture with the emotions and the endless quotidian details of a few deeply imagined lives.” The novel was also a favorite with The New Yorker reviewers and the British Economist.

Amazon’s Top 100 list

The New Yorker’s Reviewers’ favorites from 2010

The Economist’s best books of 2010
10/10/2010
David Grossman received the peace prize of the German book Trade
David Grossman has received the German Book Trade Peace Prize for his literature and peace activism, one of Europe’s most prestigious prizes in the arts, during the annual Frankfurt Bookfair.
The prize committee called Grossman ”one of Israel’s foremost authors and an active supporter of reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians.”
”His books show that the spiral of violence, hatred and displacement in the Middle East can only be ended through listening, restraint and the power of the word,” they said in a statement. ”In his novels, essays and stories, Grossman has consistently sought to understand and describe not only his own position, but also the opinions of those who think differently.”
Grossman’s last novel ”To the End of the Land,” was published to rave reviews in Israel, Germany, Italy and recently the USA, more on the novel can be found on the author’s page

For an interview with David Grossman during the book fair see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnxVLHfDJGQ


08/02/2010
The First BookTrailer in Israel!
A new and exciting book - Ido Angel’s first book The Story of Michael – Now in the stores!
Don’t miss the great TRAILER! On the author website -
07/02/2010
Michal Govrin one of thirty international authors whose work left a mark in the literary world
This year the Salon du Livre honored 30 French and 30 foreign authors whose work left a mark in the literary world during the last 30 years. Michal Govrin - one of our authors and also a poet and a theater director -
is among these authors to be honored.