סמי ברדוגו
Born 1970 · Israel
Sapir 2022 · Shortlist
Kulanu ha-hamishah
Title translated by AI:“All Five of Us”
Sami Berdugo · 52 when first published
Novel · 311 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:A disillusioned writer in his fifties keeps putting off the drive to his eldest brother, who has barricaded himself at home and will open the door only to his siblings.
Sapir 2020 · Winner
Hamor
Title translated by AI:“Donkey”
Sami Berdugo · 49 when first published
Novel · 264 pages
AI-generated summary:A jobless man of about fifty, born in Azerbaijan, lives alone on a shabby plot in a moshav, where he keeps a donkey that two police officers once asked him to hold and never came back for.
Sapir 2017 · Shortlist
Ki Gi
Title translated by AI:“Because Guy”
Sami Berdugo · 47 when first published
Novel · 265 pages
AI-generated summary:Guy comes back to the town he fled at seventeen, some forty years ago, hoping to belong there again. On the first page he pushes an old acquaintance into a lime pit, and his visit only grows stranger.
Sapir 2015 · Shortlist
Sipur hoveh al pene ha-arets
Title translated by AI:“A Present Story upon the Land”
Sami Berdugo · 44 when first published
Novel · 253 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:At forty-eight, Marcel Ben-Hamo still doesn't know what to do with his life. Leaving his makeshift flat, his father and his sister, who is raising her son alone, he travels back to the places across Israel where his past once took strange turns.
Sapir 2012 · Shortlist
ha-Yeled ha-aharon shel ha-me'ah
Title translated by AI:“The Last Child of the Century”
Sami Berdugo · 41 when first published
Short stories · 312 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Stories and short novellas from 1998 to 2010 about solitary heroes in families that are always missing someone, many of them immigrants or their children on the margins, each facing a crisis in that small, closed world.
Sapir 2008 · Shortlist
Yetomim
Title translated by AI:“Orphans”
Sami Berdugo · 36 when first published
Short stories · 196 pages · Family, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Two mirror-image novellas: a father of North African descent tries to reach his two small children after his wife vanishes, and a plump teenager waiting to be drafted learns his mother is pregnant at fifty-two.