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Ron Leshem (Hebrew: רון לשם; born December 20, 1976), is an Israeli-American television producer and writer, best known for serving as executive producer on HBO's Euphoria, and for the film Beaufort, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He co-created and wrote the television series No Man's Land (Hulu), Valley of Tears, Euphoria, The Gordin Cell, and the film Incitement, in addition to his career as a television executive. He is also a bestselling author, translated to 20 languages.

Ron Leshem
רון לשם
Ron Leshem, by Eldad Refaeli at the 2006 Sapir Prize
Born	(1976-12-20) December 20, 1976 (age 45) Tel-Aviv, Israel
Nationality	Israeli / American
Occupation	Television producer film director screenwriter author
Years active	1998–present

As a novelist, he has won some of the top Israeli literary awards, among them the prestigious annual Sapir Prize for Literature in 2006.[1]

Early life and education

Ron Leshem was born December 20, 1976, in Tel Aviv, Israel, to a Jewish family. His parents are Ziva and Gideon Leshem.

News career

Leshem served as a soldier in the Intelligence Corps of the Israel Defense Forces. Subsequently, he spent three years as an Israeli reporter from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, later on he was promoted as head of the news division at the most widely circulated newspaper in Israel Yediot Ahronot, for which he also wrote as an analyst for military affairs. By the age of 26, he started serving as deputy chief editor for Ma'ariv, one of the three major newspapers in Israel.[2] He was the paper's youngest ever deputy editor.[3] Additionally, he wrote short stories for Le Monde newspaper (France) as well as various columns in several European newspapers.^{[citation needed]}

Leshem is often invited as a speaker to universities, including: Harvard, Yale, BU, and Berkeley. Leshem has also taken part in more than 60 festivals and book fairs.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Keshet and Beaufort

In 2005 he left print media and began working in television.[3] From 2006 until 2009, Leshem was head of content and programming for Keshet Broadcasting. He oversaw development and production for Israeli TV series such as Arab Labor, the A-word, Traffic Light,[4] and Homeland, an adaptation of his show Prisoners of War.[4]

As a novelist he won the prestigious annual literary award the Sapir Prize for Literature in 2006[1] for his debut novel Beaufort,[5][6] which was published in 2006 in Hebrew.[6] The story is written as the diary of a young army officers, when IDF soldiers were protecting Beaufort Castle in Southern Lebanon b.[6] Beaufort was on the Israel bestseller list for 2 years,^{[citation needed]} sold 120,000 copies in Israel, was distributed in 22 countries,[7] and was translated into more than 20 languages.^{[citation needed]} The film version of Beaufort,[7] which Leshem co-wrote,[8] was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film,[9] and won the Berlin International Film Festival Silver Bear for Best Director.[10]

Leshem's second book The Underground Bazaar reached also the bestseller list and was translated into numerous languages.^{[citation needed]}

Executive producing and co-writing

Leshem created and co-wrote the drama series The Gordin Cell,[8] which received 11 nominations for the Israeli Academy of Film and Television awards in 2011. The TV series was adapted by NBC as Allegiance.[4] In 2014, he was commissioned to develop the script for Crater Lake.[11]

Furthermore, Leshem co-created and co-wrote the series Euphoria,[8] for Hot (2012).^{[citation needed]} In 2018, he joined the American production of Euphoria as an executive producer.[12] It was released on HBO.[8]

He and Amit Cohen struck a long-term development deal with Red Arrow Studios International in 2018, preparing to create a new scripted drama label.[13]

The Israeli film Incitement by Yaron Zilberman, which Leshem co-wrote, premiered at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival. The film received 10 nominations for the Israeli Academy of Film and Television awards.^{[citation needed]} He served as a story editor for the series Beauty and the Baker.^{[citation needed]} Alongside his long-time writing partner, Amit Cohen, Leshem co-wrote and co-created the Syrian Civil War drama No Man's Land, an American-French co-production, which Hulu and Arte ordered straight to series in spring 2019.^{[citation needed]}

In the summer of 2019, production began on Israel's Valley of Tears,^{[citation needed]} an 8-part mini-series set in the Yom Kippur War, which Leshem co-created with Cohen, Daniel Amsel, Yaron Zilberman, Gal Zaid, and Izhar Has-Lev.[14] It was picked up by HBO in 2020[15] and released as the "biggest-budget TV drama series" in Israel.[16]

In 2019, Leshem published in Israel his novel When we were beautiful (Hebrew: יפים כמו שהיינו), and announced it will be translated to English by Jessica Cohen.^{[citation needed]}

In 2019, he signed with Anonymous Content along with his frequent co-writer Amit Cohen, with whom he'd recently worked on the Hulu series Fertile Crescent, about the Syrian Civil War starring James Purefoy.[8] Leshem, Cohen, and Xabi Molia wrote the eight episodes of Fertile Crescent.[17] In November 2020, he was again partnering with WestEnd Films and Cohen on a new TV thriller, along with the company Anton.[18]

Personal life

Leshem lives between Boston and Los Angeles.[19]

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Credited as
		Creator	Writer	Producer	Editor
2011–2013	The Gordin Cell	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2012	Euphoria	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2015	Allegiance	No	Yes[20]	Yes	No
2015	Spy	Yes	No	No	No
2013–2015	Beauty and the Baker	No	No	No	Yes
2019-present	Euphoria (HBO)	No	Yes[21][8]	Yes	No
2020-present	No Man's Land[22]	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2020-present	Valley of Tears[23]	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

Film

Year	Title
		Director	Writer	Executive Producer
2007	Beaufort	No	Yes[3][8]	Yes
2019	Incitement	No	Yes	Yes

As development executive

• Arab Labor (2007–2011)
• Ramzor (Traffic light) (2008–2013)
• Prisoners of War (2010–2012)
• the A-word (2010–2014)
• Polishuk (2010)

Accolades

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2006	The Sapir Prize for Literature	Best Novel of The Year	Beaufort	Won	[1]
	Yitzhak Sadeh Prize	Best Novel of The Year	Beaufort	Won
2007	Ophir Award, Israeli Academy Awards	Best Screenplay	Beaufort	Nominated	[24]
2008	80th Academy Awards	Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film,[25]	Beaufort	Nominated
2012	Israeli Television Academy Awards	Best Drama Series	The Gordin Cell	Nominated	[10]
		Best Screenplay for Drama Series		Nominated
	Series Mania Festival	Forum Des Images[26]		Nominated
2013	Israeli Television Academy Awards	Best Drama Series	Euphoria	Nominated
		Best Screenplay for Drama Series		Nominated
2014	Israeli Television Academy Awards	Best Drama Series	The Gordin Cell (2nd season)	Nominated
		Best Screenplay for Drama Series		Nominated
2019	Ophir Award, Israeli Academy Awards	Best Film for 2019	Incitement	Won	[27]
2020	Series Mania Festival	The Official Competition	No Man's Land	Nominated	[28]
			Valley of Tears[16]	Nominated
	British Academy Television Awards	Best International Programme	Euphoria	Nominated

References

External links

• Ron Leshem bio note at Random House, Inc.
• Ron Leshem (in Hebrew)
• Leshem, Ron. "English excerpt from Beaufort". Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture.

На других языках

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- [en] Ron Leshem

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[ru] Лешем, Рон

Рон Ле́шем (ивр. ‏רון לשם‏‎, англ. Ron Leshem, 20 декабря 1976) — израильский писатель и журналист, автор романа «Бофор» (в ивритском оригинале: «Если рай существует» — ивр. ‏אם יש גן עדן‏‎), удостоенного нескольких наград. В 2007 году по роману был поставлен фильм «Бофор», получивший награду «Серебряный медведь» за лучшую режиссуру на Берлинском фестивале, а в 2008 году представленный на премию «Оскар» в категории «Лучший фильм на иностранном языке».

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