“A real literary achievement. Surely one of the most impressive novels that were written in Hebrew in the past years. It is a mind-blowing epos that raises big questions about the human spirit, democracy, morals and violence.” 15/08/2013

(Ha’aretz Culture Supplement)

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“Good People” is in the bestseller list in the Netherland.

Best Seller. List of best novels of 2012: NRC, Trouw, De Tigd, Athenaeum.

06/05/2010 – Israel Social TV

Nir Baram talks in the 43 years of occupation – Protest – Tel Aviv

20/07/2012 Published in Haaretz English edition. “Are we getting closer to the day when the Zionist left will begin to explain the need to end the occupation with arguments related to the history of the occupation?”

17/01/2011 – Haaretz.  “Does literature today reflect the commercialism of the entertainment industry, or is it keeping a high standard and thus rendering itself obsolete? Lorin Stein, editor of The Paris Review, and Israeli writer Nir Baram compare notes.”

06/05/2010 – Israelis and Palestinians Hail Writers and the Word, Just Not With One Another.

“The question that hovered at both festivals was how the reading of good books could make a difference. Nir Baram, a young Israeli writer who addressed the opening of the Israeli festival, offered an answer…”

May 2010 – Address delivered on the opening night of the International Writers Festival in Jerusalem.

01/05/2012 – Haaretz.

“Opening speakers must show their speeches to management in advance – in an effort to avoid a repeat of a 2010 speech that criticized Israel.”

25/10/2011 – La Repubblica – Interview between Susanna Nirenstein and Nir Baram

01/05/2011 – Der Standard

“Nir Baram is the shooting star of the young Israeli literature. Stefan Gmuender talked to him about realism, propaganda and political responsibility.”

27/05/2011 – The Jerusalem Post

“About 20 prominent Israeli figures from the Left have recently signed an open letter to European leaders urging them to support the Palestinian bid for independent statehood from the United Nations in September.”

03/05/2010 by Maya Sela.
“The Second International Writers Festival opened in Jerusalem last night, with author Nir Baram, representing the Israeli participants, imploring writers not to conceal disagreements.”

02/08/2006 – Whereas 60 young Israeli writers are calling for a cease-fire, an older generation views this as a ‘war of no choice.’   By Shiri Lev-Ari

“This week a group of some 60 young literary personalities – authors, song writers, critics and editors – got together and published a letter calling for an immediate halt to the war in Lebanon. The letter is part of the beginning of a series of planned activities that will apparently continue during the meeting of the signatories – mainly members of Israeli literature’s younger generation – and may include a demonstration. Among the initiators of the letter, which was sent to Defense Minister Amir Peretz, Education Minister Yuli Tamir and others, are authors Shimon Adaf, Dudu Busi and Nir Baram.”

27/01/2006 Dalia Karpel interviews Nir Baram following the publication of his third novel “The Remaker of Dreams”.

They discuss literature, childhood, memories and writing.

“Baram prose is so devoid of winks, so rigorous, and the plot is complex with no concession to readers who might sometimes find it difficult to follow the thread of events, but that at no time will abandon the awareness that Good People is a grand novel.”

(David Frati, Mangialibri)

“The book of the year: in this book Baram took on the whole world, like no other Israeli author has done in the last decades.”

(Yekum Tarbut, Culture Magazine)

“One of the best descriptions in literature of the late capitalism era. In this book Baram emerges not only as a great novelist but also as an important thinker of our time.”

(Makor Rishon)

“This is the most ambitious, impressive and brilliant novel that was written this year. Even more so; it has the power to get people out to the streets like the social protests of 2011.”

(Weekend ‘SofShavua’ magazine)

“The book of the year”

(TimeOut Tel-Aviv selection)