University / institution contact details
Position: Lecturer/Professor
Universitat de Barcelona
Departament de Filologia Classica, Romanica i Semitica
Departament de Filologia Classica, Romanica i Semitica
Facultat de Filologia
Universitat de Barcelona
Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585
08007 Barcelona - SPAIN
Phone +34 650557471 (cellular)
+34 934035607 (office)
e-mail: abejarano@ub.edu
http://stel.ub.edu/hebreu/en
Teaches (T) and/or researches (R) in:
1. Bible and Related Literature: T
2: Bible translations: T
5: Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran studies: T
2. History of the Jewish People: T
18: Epigraphy: T
19: Palaeography: T
6. Literature (other than Biblical and Rabbinic): TR
Medieval (including scientific, poetry, Genizah studies): TR
Recent: TR
Israeli: TR
7. Languages: T
51: Hebrew: T
8. Art, Architecture and Performing Arts: T
63: Theatre and Film: T
9. Contemporary Studies: TR
Jewish identity and assimilation: TR
Description
Ana Bejarano (Salamanca, 1959). Associated Professor - Senior Lecturer of Hebrew Language and Literature at the University of Barcelona and Hebrew-Spanish literary translator. She has translated more than fifty works by authors such as A. B. Yehoshua, David Grossman, Zeruya Shalev, Etgar Keret, Meir Shalev, Yehudit Katzir, S. Yizhar, Raquel Bluvstein, Sayed Kashua, Batya Gur, Yehoshua Sobol, Nir Baram among others. She is the 2016 winner of the National Prize for the Best Translation (Premio Nacional a la Mejor Traducción), awarded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport of Spain (for Gran Cabaret – A Horse walks into a bar, by David Grossman). Her PhD dissertation was devoted to the Hebrew Medieval Poet Shelomo Ben Reuben Bonafed (1370-1448) and she has been the curator of the exhibition “Barcelona Haggadot. The Jewish Splendour of Catalan Gothic Period”, held at the Museu d’Historia de Barcelona in 2015, an exhibition that reunited for the first time in more than five centuries an extensive selection of the most splendid illuminated manuscripts of the Catalan Gothic period.
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