Tomer Gardi
Tomer Gardi, born in 1974 in Kibbutz Dan in the Galilee, studied literature and education in Jerusalem, Berlin and Beer Sheva. His literary essay Stein, Papier was published in 2011 (Engl. 2013). His debut novel Broken German was published by Droschl in 2016 and he read an extract from it at the 40th Days of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt. The radio play for Broken German (SWR production, director: Noam Brusilovsky) received the ARD German Radio Play Award in 2017. Die Feuerbringer – Eine Schlager-Operetta (co-production by WDR and BR, director: Susanne Krings) was voted Radio Play of the Month for February 2018 by the jury of the German Academy of Performing Arts. In 2019, Tomer Gardi received the Alfred Döblin Scholarship for his second novel Sonst kriegen Sie Ihr Geld zurück. For his novel Eine runde Sache, he received a work grant from the German Literature Fund in 2020 and a working grant from the Berlin Senate for literature in non-German in 2021. Tomer Gardi won the 2022 Leipzig Book Fair Prize for his novel Eine runde Sache. He lives in Berlin.
Tomer Gardi was a fellow of the Tarabya Cultural Academy from February to May 2024.
Tomer Gardi, born in 1974 in Kibbutz Dan in the Galilee, studied literature and education in Jerusalem, Berlin and Beer Sheva. His literary essay Stein, Papier was published in 2011 (Engl. 2013). His debut novel Broken German was published by Droschl in 2016 and he read an extract from it at the 40th Days of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt. The radio play for Broken German (SWR production, director: Noam Brusilovsky) received the ARD German Radio Play Award in 2017. Die Feuerbringer – Eine Schlager-Operetta (co-production by WDR and BR, director: Susanne Krings) was voted Radio Play of the Month for February 2018 by the jury of the German Academy of Performing Arts. In 2019, Tomer Gardi received the Alfred Döblin Scholarship for his second novel Sonst kriegen Sie Ihr Geld zurück. For his novel Eine runde Sache, he received a work grant from the German Literature Fund in 2020 and a working grant from the Berlin Senate for literature in non-German in 2021. Tomer Gardi won the 2022 Leipzig Book Fair Prize for his novel Eine runde Sache. He lives in Berlin.
Tomer Gardi was a fellow of the Tarabya Cultural Academy from February to May 2024.