Ron Leshem
Author of Beaufort
About the Author
Image credit: Wikipedia
Works by Ron Leshem
מגילת זכויות הירח 2 copies
Leshem Ron 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1976-12-20
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Israel
- Birthplace
- Tel Aviv, Israel
- Places of residence
- Tel Aviv, Israel
Boston, Massachusetts, USA - Occupations
- media professional
journalist
editor - Organizations
- Yedioth Ahronoth (Israeli periodical, 1998-2002)
Ma'ariv (Israeli periodical, 2002-2006)
Channel Two (deputy director in charge of programming, Israel television) - Awards and honors
- Sapir Prize (2006)
Yitzhak Sadeh Prize (2006) - Short biography
- Ron Leshem (33), is a native of Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv. His novel BEAUFORT won the Sapir Prize – Israel’s top literary award – for 2006, as well as the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize for military literature.
From 1998 to 2002 Leshem served on the editorial board of Yediot Ahronot newspaper. Among his most notable achievements there was a series of articles from the field about the Intifada that gained widespread public attention. In 2002 he became deputy editor of Maariv newspaper and in 2006 joined the Channel Two television station as deputy director in charge of programming and special projects.
BEAUFORT is Ron Leshem’s first book. Joseph Cedar (“Time of Favor,” "Campfire”), is the recipient of the Silver Bear for his direction of the film version of BEAUFORT at the Berlin Film Festival 2007.
At present, Leshem is at work on his second novel. [from ronleshem.com]
Members
Reviews
Beaufort by Ron Leshem
140
A novel about Israeli soldiers occupying fort in S. Lebanon in the late 1990's, and the mother's movement, which argued that more of their soldier-sons were dying needlessly than individuals being saved in Israel by the occupation. As an anti-war novel, this ranks up there with The Things That They Carried and Matterhorn.
Highly recommended.
4 star
Highly recommended.
4 star
In a word, Beaufort is gritty. The military outpost Beaufort is a living nightmare for Israeli soldier Liraz, (better known as Erez), but yet he must defend it to the death. Twenty-one year old Erez commands the defense with thirteen boy-soldiers with insane courage, sharp wit and fierce loyalty. All around this crumbling and ancient fortress unseen enemies hide just waiting for the right moment to strike. And strike, they do. Erez is witness to death, up close and personal. In order to cope he and his men play a macabre game called "What He Can't Do Anymore" where, when a soldier loses his life in battle, the survivors list all the things their fallen comrade will never do again. It's a crude way of acknowledging his death as reality. By the end of Beaufort you will swear Leshem simply interviewed the real Erez and wrote it all down, word for word. Erez, crude and passionate, walks out of the pages in a blaze of glory and his words burn in the brain long after the last page is turned. I can why they made this into a movie.… (more)
Beaufort by Ron Leshem is a riveting story about a company of Israeli soldiers who are manning a isolated IDF outpost atop a hill in a medieval Crusader castle. The time is the year 2000 when Israel was involved in a war with the Hezbollah. This is a very realistic look at modern day warfare, and the author has the ability to plant the reader right in the middle of these young men as we share their day to day world of mental stress, sweat and fear. Both the monotony and the anxiety of a solders’ life is depicted vividly.
Excellently translated from it’s original Hebrew by Evan Fallenberg, the story unfolds through the eyes of the main character, a young platoon leader called Liraz “Erez” Liberti . His descriptions of the endless conversations that the soldiers use to not only relieve the mind-numbing boredom and their homesickness, but also to help break the tension of being under the constant threat of death shows how these man have created their own world and part of their private world is their ever evolving language that is laced with black humor and all things sexual.
The writing is exceptional and as it is based on true events at times it’s hard to remember that this is a fictional novel not a personal memoir. Beaufort is a book that I found emotional draining yet so incredibly real that I feel that I have a much clearer insight into the thoughts and feelings of not just Israeli soldiers, but young men from all nations who are sent off to war.… (more)
Excellently translated from it’s original Hebrew by Evan Fallenberg, the story unfolds through the eyes of the main character, a young platoon leader called Liraz “Erez” Liberti . His descriptions of the endless conversations that the soldiers use to not only relieve the mind-numbing boredom and their homesickness, but also to help break the tension of being under the constant threat of death shows how these man have created their own world and part of their private world is their ever evolving language that is laced with black humor and all things sexual.
The writing is exceptional and as it is based on true events at times it’s hard to remember that this is a fictional novel not a personal memoir. Beaufort is a book that I found emotional draining yet so incredibly real that I feel that I have a much clearer insight into the thoughts and feelings of not just Israeli soldiers, but young men from all nations who are sent off to war.… (more)
2 
DeltaQueen50 | 9 other reviews | Feb 9, 2014 |
DeltaQueen50 | 9 other reviews | Feb 9, 2014 | Lists
Awards
You May Also Like
Associated Authors
Statistics
- Works
- 8
- Members
- 219
- Popularity
- #102,099
- Rating
- 4.1
- Reviews
- 11
- ISBNs
- 26
- Languages
- 5