Esther Bendahan

Esther Bendahan Cohen (Tétouan, 1964) is a Moroccan-Spanish writer.

Her Sephardic Moroccan family went to Madrid when she was a child, in this city she studied Psychology and French Literature. She is the director of the television program «Shalom» (RTVE) and the organizer of Casa Sefarad-Israel.

Books

• Soñar con Hispania (Dreaming of Hispania) (with Ester Benari), Ediciones Tantín, 2002
• La sombra y el mar (Shadow and Sea), Morales del Coso, 2003
• Deshojando alcachofas (Putting the Leaves off Some Artichokes), Seix Barral, 2005
• Déjalo, ya volveremos (Let It Be, We'll Come Back Some Day), Seix Barral, 2006, where she tells her childhood and the disintegration of Moroccan Jewish communities.
• La cara de Marte (Mars' Face), Algaida, 2007.
• El secreto de la reina persa (Persian Queen's Secret), La Esfera de los Libros, 2009
• Pene, Ediciones Ambulantes, 2011. An interesting work against submission, presented as a dialogue with the work The chest from Philip Roth.
• Tratado del alma gemela, Ediciones del Viento, 2012. Award: XXII Premio de Narrativa Gonzalo Torrente Ballester.

Prizes

• Premio Fnac, Deshojando alcachofas.
• Premio Tigre Juan, 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 (with Adolfo García Ortega).

External links

• Seix Barral
• La Esfera de los Libros
• Déjalo, ya volveremos, Chapter 1 (PDF)
• http://elpais.com/elpais/2013/11/20/opinion/1384972577_665223.html