| 1 | Best short story I’ve ever read
‘Metamorphosis’ by Franz Kafka
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| 2 | Book that should be on the national curriculum
Dolly City by Orly Castel-Bloom should be taught in schools. It is a good preparation for the crazy life of adults. Another good choice is Alexander Hamon’s Bruno’s Question.
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| 3 | Best film of the book I’ve seen
Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, based on Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.
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| 4 | Best opening line to a short story
“I’m never going to write another story”, from ‘My Last Story’ by Janet Frame.
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| 5 | My favourite opening line of a novel
Can’t think of one right now.
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| 6 | My favourite novel that no one else seems to have heard of
Bernhard by Yoel Hoffman.
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| 7 | The book I’d most like to reread, if I could find it again
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck.
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| 8 | My favourite bookshop
Book Worm in Rabin Square Tel-Aviv.
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| 9 | Author I’d like to nominate for the Nobel Prize for literature
I think Kurt Vonnegut really deserved that prize, but had too much of a sense of humour for the Swedes to see him as a serious contender.
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| 10 | Deceased author I’d most like to meet
I’d like to get drunk with Raymond Carver, play chess with Nabokov (with his brain, I’d surely lose) and have my throat examined by Anton Chekhov.
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