Shimon Adaf

Shimon Adaf (Hebrew: שמעון אדף‎‎, born 1972) is an Israeli poet and author born in Sderot.
Shimon Adaf's first book of poetry, Icarus' Monologue, won a prize from the Israeli Ministry of Education. In 1996–2000, Adaf studied at Tel Aviv University, simultaneously writing articles on literature, film and rock music for Israeli newspapers. In 2000–2005, he worked as a prose editor for Keter Publishing House.
In 2013, he won Israel's prestigious Sapir Prize for his novel "Mox Nox."

Poetry

• Icarus' Monologue, 1997
• What Which I Thought Shadow Is the Real Body, 2002
• Aviva-No, 2009

Prose

(All titles given in approximate English translation)

• One Mile and Two Days Before Sunset, 2004
• The Buried Heart, 2007
• Sunburnt Faces, 2008
• Frost, 2010
• Mox Nox, 2011
• Undercities, 2012
• The Wedding Gifts, 2014
• Detective's Complaint, 2015

Non-Fiction

• Art and War, 2016 (with Lavie Tidhar)