Esther Bendahan
Esther Bendahan Cohen is a Moroccan-Spanish writer.
Her Moroccan Jewish family moved to Madrid when she was a child, where she studied Psychology and French Literature. She is the director of the television program Shalom and the organizer of Centro Sefarad-Israel.
Books
- Soñar con Hispania , Ediciones Tantín, 2002
- La sombra y el mar, Morales del Coso, 2003
- Deshojando alcachofas, Seix Barral, 2005
- Déjalo, ya volveremos, Seix Barral, 2006, where she tells her childhood and the disintegration of Moroccan Jewish communities.
- La cara de Marte, Algaida, 2007.
- El secreto de la reina persa, La Esfera de los Libros, 2009
- Tratado del alma gemela, Ediciones del Viento, 2012. Award: XXII Premio de Narrativa Gonzalo Torrente Ballester.
Prizes
- Premio Fnac, Deshojando alcachofas.
- Tigre [Juan Award], 2006 with La cara de Marte
- Premio Torrente Ballester, 2011, El tratado del alma gemela.
Translations
- Au nom de l'Autre: Réflexions sur l'antisémitisme qui vient , Alain Finkielkraut, Seix Barral, 2005.