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From Kibbutz to Career: A Conversation with Lavie Tidhar
Raised on a kibbutz in Israel, Lavie Tidhar began his world travels at fifteen, living in South Africa, the UK, Laos, and Vanuatu. At twenty-two he published a collection of poetry, and he had his first fiction stories published at twenty-seven. In 2009, the first volume of The Apex Book of World SF came out, edited by Tidhar, as well as dark fantasy novel The Tel Aviv Dossier, cowritten with Nir Yaniv.
Tidhar’s debut solo novel came out in 2010: The Bookman, first in the literary steampunk Bookman series (including 2011’s Camera Obscura and 2012’s The Great Game). In 2011, Osama, a “film noir, non-fiction, alternative history, and international thriller,” won him his first major genre award for a novel: a 2012 World Fantasy Award. In 2013 he moved to London, the same year his The Violent Century was published (alternative history cold war espionage and superheroes), followed by 2014’s A Man Lies Dreaming (dark, literary noir thriller with a twist). In 2015 he released the Jews vs Aliens and Jews vs Zombies anthologies coedited with Rebecca Levene, under Jared Shurin’s Jurassic London label (later printed editions by Ben Yehuda press).
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