Esther Bendahan

Esther Bendahan Cohen (born 1964 in Tétouan) is a Moroccan-Spanish writer.

Her Moroccan Jewish family moved to Madrid when she was a child, where she studied Psychology and French Literature. She is the director of the television program Shalom (RTVE) and the organizer of Centro Sefarad-Israel.

• Soñar con Hispania (Dreaming of Hispania) (with Ester Benari), Ediciones Tantín, 2002
• La sombra y el mar (Shadow and Sea), Morales del Coso, 2003
• Deshojando alcachofas (Putting the Leaves off Some Artichokes), Seix Barral, 2005
• Déjalo, ya volveremos (Let It Be, We'll Come Back Some Day), Seix Barral, 2006, where she tells her childhood and the disintegration of Moroccan Jewish communities.
• La cara de Marte (Mars' Face), Algaida, 2007.
• El secreto de la reina persa (Persian Queen's Secret), La Esfera de los Libros, 2009
• Tratado del alma gemela, Ediciones del Viento, 2012. Award: XXII Premio de Narrativa Gonzalo Torrente Ballester.

• Premio Fnac, Deshojando alcachofas.
• Tigre Juan Award, 2006 with La cara de Marte^[1]
• Premio Torrente Ballester, 2011, El tratado del alma gemela.

• Au nom de l'Autre: Réflexions sur l'antisémitisme qui vient , Alain Finkielkraut, Seix Barral, 2005 (with Adolfo García Ortega).

• Seix Barral
• La Esfera de los Libros Archived 2009-06-07 at the Wayback Machine
• Déjalo, ya volveremos, Chapter 1 (PDF)
• http://elpais.com/elpais/2013/11/20/opinion/1384972577_665223.html

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