Garfinkel, Jonathan
Jonathan Garfinkel is an award-winning author whose work has been translated into a dozen languages. His plays include “Cockroach” (adapted from the novel by Rawi Hage) and “House of Many Tongues”, nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama. The controversial “The Trials of John Demjanjuk: A Holocaust Cabaret” has been performed across Canada, Russia, Ukraine, and Germany. He is the author of the poetry collections “Glass Psalms” and “Bociany” and the forthcoming “Do You Love Your Life?” His novel about post-Soviet Georgia, “In a Land without Dogs the Cats Learn to Bark” was published in 2023, and his memoir, “Ambivalence: Crossing the Israel/Palestine Divide”, has been published in numerous countries to wide critical acclaim. Garfinkel lives in Berlin.