Helen Zahavi is an English novelist and screenwriter. Before becoming a writer she worked as a Russia

Russia

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n translator, and has spent several years living in Paris

Paris

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.

Her first novel, Dirty Weekend

Dirty Weekend (novel)

Dirty Weekend is a novel by Helen Zahavi, adapted into a film two years later by Zahavi and acclaimed director Michael Winner. In the US it was first published under the title The Weekend; some editions are subtitled "A Novel of Revenge"....

, caused a media storm on publication, and critical reaction was extreme and polarised. Despite initial hostility, the book went on to be a bestseller in the UK and Europe.

Dirty Weekend has been translated into thirteen languages and was adapted into a film by Michael Winner

Michael Winner

Michael Robert Winner is a British film director and producer, active in both Europe and the United States, also known as a food critic for the Sunday Times.-Early life and early career :...

in 1993. Zahavi has a screen credit as co-writer.

Awards and Nominations

• Dirty Weekend was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award in 1991

External links

• Interview with Alex Kershaw - Tribune Magazine
• Interview with Gerald Jacobs - The Independent on Sunday
• Noir Transformations: Gender, Place and Identity in The Talented Mr Ripley and Dirty Weekend - Andrew Jeffcoat, Lancaster University/Crimeculture.com
• Whose Fantasy Is This Anyway? The Female Serial Killer in Dirty Weekend and The Eye of the Beholder - Jamalludin Bin Aziz, Lancaster University/Crimeculture.com
• Le Mâle Par Le Mal - François Rivière, Libération
• Sauve Qui Peut Zahavi - François Rivière, Libération