Apples from the Desert

Written By:  Savyon Liebrecht
This event is being hosted by M.I.T. Hillel, in association with MIT Center for International Studies. 
SYNOPSIS A romantic comedy about Sephardic Jewish parents from Jerusalem whose only daughter runs away from home to live on a kibbutz. 
ABOUT Savyon Liebrecht Savyon Liebrecht was born in Munich, Germany, in 1948, to Holocaust survivor parents. She studied philosophy and literature at Tel Aviv University and started publishing in 1986. Liebrecht has published six collections of short stories and novellas and two novels. She has also written multiple plays, all of which have been staged, and a number of TV scripts. She has received awards for two of her TV scripts, the Alterman Prize (1987), the Amelia Rosselli Prize for  Mail Order Women  (Italy, 2002) and the Maior-Amalfi Award for  A Good Place for the Night  (Italy, 2005). She was awarded Playwright of the Year for her successful plays,  It`s All Greek to Me  (2005), and  Apples in the Desert  (2006).  The Banality of Love  won Best Play of the Year in 2009.