1. David Grossman's books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
14 Facts About David Grossman
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David Grossman's mother, Michaella, was born in Mandatory Palestine; his father, Yitzhak, emigrated from Dynow in Poland with his widowed mother at the age of nine.
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David Grossman's grandfather paved roads in the Galilee and supplemented his income by buying and selling rugs.
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At age 9, Grossman won a national competition on knowledge of Sholem Aleichem.
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David Grossman worked as a child actor for the national radio and continued working for the Israel Broadcasting Authority for nearly 25 years.
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In 1971, David Grossman served in the IDF military intelligence corps.
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David Grossman was in the army when the Yom Kippur War broke out in 1973, but saw no action.
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David Grossman studied philosophy and theater at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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David Grossman is married to Michal Grossman, a child psychologist.
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Uri's life was later celebrated in David Grossman's book Falling Out of Time.
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David Grossman has been described by The Economist as epitomising Israel's left-leaning cultural elite.
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David Grossman explained that the death of his son did not change his opposition to Israel's policy towards the Palestinians.
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Two months after his son's death, David Grossman addressed a crowd of 100,000 Israelis who had gathered to mark the anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.
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In 2015, David Grossman withdrew his candidacy for the Israel Prize for Literature after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tried to remove two of the judging panel who he claimed were "anti-Zionist".