Lit in Translation

Nir Baram

ניר ברעם

Born 1976 · Israel

In English
2 of 3

Books on prize lists

  • In English

    Sapir 2018 · Shortlist

    At Night's End

    יקיצה · Yekitsah

    Nir Baram · 42 when first published

    Novel · 304 pages · Coming of age, Family

    AI-generated summary:An Israeli writer wakes in a hotel in a foreign city, his clothes caked with mud, days after the literary festival has ended. He learns he has been telling people that his closest friend, Yoel, is dead, though Yoel is still alive.

  • In English

    Sapir 2010 · Shortlist

    Good People

    אנשים טובים · Anashim tovim

    Nir Baram · 34 when first published

    Novel · 421 pages · Historical, War, Politics

    AI-generated summary:In 1938 an ambitious Berlin adman decides to sell his talents to Hitler's state, while in Leningrad the daughter of a Jewish scholar must collaborate with Soviet power to save her younger brothers.

  • No English yet

    Sapir 2007 · Shortlist

    מחזיר החלומות

    Mahzir ha-halomot

    Title translated by AI:“The Dream Returner”

    Nir Baram · 30 when first published

    Novel · 408 pages · Speculative, Love, Family

    AI-generated summary:A boy wakes one night to find he can give dreams back to the people who dreamed them. Ten years later, as a storm upends Tel Aviv and the sun rises later every morning, he uses the gift on the woman he loves.