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I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.
Aharon Appelfeld
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Aharon Appelfeld
Age: 85 †
Born: 1932
Born: February 16
Died: 2018
Died: January 4
Novelist
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Ervin Appelfeld
Erwin Appelfeld
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