Yishai Sarid
Yishai Sarid (Hebrew: ישי שריד) is an Israeli author, novelist and lawyer. His second book, Limassol, became an international best-seller. His fourth book, The Third, became a major subject of public and literary discussion in Israel and won the Bernstein literary award. Sarid works full-time as an attorney, formerly as a public prosecutor and now privately.
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Noa Yedlin
Noa Yedlin is an Israeli author, the recipient of the Sapir Prize (the Israeli Man Booker) and the Prime Minister's Literature Award and author of the bestselling House Arrest, Stockholm, People Like Us and The Wrong Book. Yedlin was named by Haaretz Magazine one of "66 Israeli Women You Should Know".
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Yedlin is also the creator of a two-season TV series based on her bestselling novel Stockholm (the Israeli Best Mini-Series TV Award). A German remake of the series (You Don't Die Among Friends) won Best Scripted Format at 2021 International Format Awards and Best European Series at La Rochelle Festival De La Fiction 2021. The series has been re-made by SVT Sweden (broadcast: Christmas 2022). Her bestselling novel People Like Us is currently be -
Shulamit Lapid
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Rutu Modan
Rutu Modan was born in Tel-Aviv in 1966. In 1992 she graduated cum laude from the illustration program at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Shortly after graduating, she began regularly writing and illustrating comic strips and stories for Israel's leading daily newspapers, as well as editing the Israeli edition of MAD magazine with Yirmi Pinkus. Together, they founded Actus Tragicus, an internationally acclaimed collective and independent publishing house for alternative comic artists, in 1995. The following year she collaborated with Israeli author Etgar Keret on her first graphic novel, Nobody Said it Was Going to Be Fun, an Israeli bestseller. Rutu has worked as an illustrator for magazines and books in Israel and abro
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Yoav Blum
Yoav Blum is an author who masterfully blends high-concept speculative and science fiction with gripping mystery, thriller, and philosophical depth. His novels delve into the extraordinary – from the overwhelming experience of hearing the thoughts of everyone around you, to the mind-bending possibilities of time travel, the intricate mechanics of body switching, and the hidden art of orchestrating coincidences.
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But beneath the thrilling concepts lie profound questions about what it truly means to be human. Blum explores the complexities of identity, the struggle to define the self amidst external influences, the nature of consciousness and perception, and the delicate dance between fate and free will. His narratives often feature compelling -
Orly Krauss-Winer
I was born in 1959, in Israel, the eldest child of parents who immigrated from different parts of the world. My father came from Hungary after World War II, and my mother from Uzbekistan, after a long, ten-year journey with her family through the desert, by way of Afghanistan, India, and Sri-Lanka. My sixth book was about my father's family history, their brave and special story of survival through the Holocaust, and I dedicated my eleventh book to the story of the hardships endured by my mother's family in the desert.
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My love of books goes back to when I was a child; my parents taught me to read at the age of four, and I've been a voracious reader ever since. I used to read under my desk at school, and I was kicked out so many times that, i -
Micah Goodman
Micah Goodman is the author of four best-selling books in Israel including Maimonides and the Book That Changed Judaism. He is president of Beit Midrash Yisraeli–Ein Prat, and a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.
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Dana Vowinckel
Dana Vowinckel wurde 1996 in Berlin geboren und studierte Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft in Berlin, Toulouse und Cambridge. Beim Ingeborg-Bachmann-Wettbewerb 2021 wurde sie für einen Auszug aus Gewässer im Ziplock mit dem Deutschlandfunk-Preis ausgezeichnet. Für ihre Erzählung In my Jewish Bag erhielt sie beim Wettbewerb »L’Chaim: Schreib zum jüdischen Leben in Deutschland!« den ersten Preis. 2023 wurde ihr ein Arbeitsstipendium des Berliner Senats zugesprochen. Dana Vowinckel lebt in Berlin.
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Tehila Hakimi
Tehila Hakimi is a Jewish Book Council Award– winning fiction writer and poet. She was a participant in the 2018 Fulbright International Writing Program Fellowship at the University of Iowa.
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Hakimi’s short prose and poems have been published in translation in Asymptote, World Literature Today, and The Poetry Review, among others. Hunting in America received critical acclaim when published in Hebrew, it was mentioned as Haaretz Best Book of 2023 and was longlisted for the 2023 Sapir prize. -
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr was born in Dakar in 1990. He studied literature and philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Terre ceinte (Brotherhood), his first novel, won the Grand Prix du Roman Métis, the Prix Ahmadou Kourouma, and the French Voices Grand Prize. The president of Senegal named him a Chevalier of the National Order of Merit. La plus secrète mémoire des hommes (The Most Secret Memory of Men) won the 2021 Goncourt Prize.
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Takis Würger
Takis Würger, geboren 1985, ist Redakteur beim Nachrichtenmagazin »Der Spiegel«. Im Alter von 28 Jahren ging er nach England, um an der Universität von Cambridge Ideengeschichte zu studieren. Dort boxte er als Schwergewicht für den Cambridge University Amateur Boxing Club und wurde Mitglied in verschiedenen studentischen Klubs.
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Israel J. Singer
Israel Joshua Singer was a Yiddish novelist. He was born Yisruel Yehoyshye Zinger, the son of Pinchas Mendl Zinger, a rabbi and author of rabbinic commentaries, and Basheva Zylberman. He was the brother of Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer and novelist Esther Kreitman. His granddaughter is the novelist, Brett Singer.
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Singer contributed to the European Yiddish press from 1916. In 1921, after Abraham Cahan noticed his story Pearls, Singer became a correspondent for the leading American Yiddish newspaper The Forward. His short story Liuk appeared in 1924, illuminating the ideological confusion of the Bolshevik Revolution. He wrote his first novel, Steel and Iron, in 1927. In 1934 he emigrated to the United States. He died of a he -
D.A. Mishani
D. A. Mishani (born in 1975) is an Israeli crime writer, editor and literary scholar, specializing in the history of detective fiction.
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His first detective novel, "The missing file", was published in Hebrew in 2011. Translation rights for the novel, the first in a crime series featuring police inspector Avraham Avraham, were sold to more than 10 territories. The American edition of "The missing file" will be published by HarperCollins on April 2013.
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D.A. Mishani
D. A. Mishani (born in 1975) is an Israeli crime writer, editor and literary scholar, specializing in the history of detective fiction.
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His first detective novel, "The missing file", was published in Hebrew in 2011. Translation rights for the novel, the first in a crime series featuring police inspector Avraham Avraham, were sold to more than 10 territories. The American edition of "The missing file" will be published by HarperCollins on April 2013.
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Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic author profile: نجيب محفوظ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and five plays over a 70-year career. Many of his works have been made into Egyptian and foreign films.
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Yoav Blum
Yoav Blum is an author who masterfully blends high-concept speculative and science fiction with gripping mystery, thriller, and philosophical depth. His novels delve into the extraordinary – from the overwhelming experience of hearing the thoughts of everyone around you, to the mind-bending possibilities of time travel, the intricate mechanics of body switching, and the hidden art of orchestrating coincidences.
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But beneath the thrilling concepts lie profound questions about what it truly means to be human. Blum explores the complexities of identity, the struggle to define the self amidst external influences, the nature of consciousness and perception, and the delicate dance between fate and free will. His narratives often feature compelling -
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Eduardo Halfon
Eduardo Halfon nació en 1971 en la ciudad de Guatemala. Ha publicado Esto no es una pipa, Saturno (2003), De cabo roto (2003), El ángel literario (2004), Siete minutos de desasosiego (2007), Clases de hebreo (2008), Clases de dibujo (2009), El boxeador polaco (2008; Libros del Asteroide, 2019), La pirueta (2010), Mañana nunca lo hablamos (2011), Elocuencias de un tartamudo (2012), Monasterio (Libros del Asteroide, 2014), Signor Hoffman (Libros del Asteroide, 2015), Duelo (Libros del Asteroide, 2017), Clases de chapín (2017), Biblioteca bizarra (2018), Canción (Libros del Asteroide, 2021), Un hijo cualquiera (Libros del Asteroide, 2022) y Tarántula (Libros del Asteroide, 2024).
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Yaniv Iczkovits
Yaniv Iczkovits (Hebrew: יניב איצקוביץ') is an Israeli writer known for his novels, essays and philosophical work. His 2015 fantasy-historical adventure novel The Slaughterman's Daughter has been translated into several European languages and gained critical acclaim.
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Maya Arad
מאיה ערד נולדה בראשון לציון בכ"ח בטבת תשל"א, 25 בינואר 1971 להוריה טובה ויוסף ערד. גדלה והתחנכה בקיבוץ נחל עוז ובראשון לציון. לאחר לימודי יסוד ותיכון בראשון לציון התגייסה לצה"ל ושירתה במדור הסברה של חיל החינוך, בו פגשה את רויאל נץ. מאיה למדה בלשנות ולימודים קלאסיים לתואר ראשון באוניברסיטת תל אביב ובלשנות לדוקטורט באוניברסיטת לונדון. לימדה באוניברסיטאות שונות, ביניהן הארוורד, ז'נבה וסנקט-פטרבורג. ספרה "מקום אחר ועיר זרה" זיכה אותה בפרס משרד החינוך ליצירת ביכורים, נבחר לחמישיית המועמדים הסופית לפרס ספיר לשנת 2005 והועלה כמחזה בתיאטרון הקאמרי (בבימוי אלדד זיו ומוסיקה מאת אלון אולארצ'יק). כיום מאיה מלמדת באוניברסיטת סטנפורד. נשואה לרויאל נץ ואם לשתי בנות.
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Orly Castel-Bloom
Orly Castel-Bloom (Hebrew: אורלי קסטל-בלום) is an Israeli author.
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Orly Castel-Bloom was born in north Tel Aviv in 1960, to a family of Egyptian Jews. Until the age of three, she had French nannies and spoke only French. She studied film at the Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts in Ramat Gan.
Castel-Bloom lives in Tel Aviv and has two children.
Castel-Bloom's first collection of short stories, Not Far from the Center of Town, was published in 1987 by Am Oved. She is the author of 11 books, including collections of short fiction and novels. Her 1992 novel Dolly City, has been included in the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, and in 1999 she was named one of the fifty most influential women in Israel. Dolly City has been performed -
Etgar Keret
Born in Ramat Gan in 1967, Etgar Keret is a leading voice in Israeli literature and film. His books have been published in over four dozen languages and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, Le Monde and The New Yorker, among others. His awards include the Cannes Film Festival's "Caméra d'Or" (2007), the Charles Bronfman Prize (2016) and the prestigious Sapir Prize (2018). Over a hundred short films and several feature films have been based on his stories. Keret teaches creative writing at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Since 2021, he has been publishing the weekly newsletter "Alphabet Soup" on Substack.
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Meir Shalev
Meir Shalev (Hebrew: מאיר שלו) was one of Israel’s most celebrated novelists. He received many awards for his work, including the National Jewish Book Award and Israel’s Brenner Prize, both for A Pigeon and a Boy.
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A.B. Yehoshua
Abraham B. Yehoshua (אברהם ב. יהושע) is one of Israel's preeminent writers. His novels include A Journey to the End of the Millenium, The Liberated Bride, and A Woman in Jerusalem, which was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2007. He lives in Haifa.
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Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout is the author of several novels, including: Abide with Me, a national bestseller and BookSense pick, and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England. In 2009 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her book Olive Kitteridge. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker. She teaches at the Master of Fine Arts program at Queens University of Charlotte.
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Brandon Sanderson
I’m Brandon Sanderson, and I write stories of the fantastic: fantasy, science fiction, and thrillers.
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Defiant, the fourth and final volume of the series that started with Skyward in 2018, comes out in November 2023, capping an already book-filled year that will see the releases of all four Secret Projects: Tress of the Emerald Sea, The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, and Secret Project Four (with its official title reveal coming October 2023). These four books were all initially offered to backers of the #1 Kickstarter campaign of all time.
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Etgar Keret
Born in Ramat Gan in 1967, Etgar Keret is a leading voice in Israeli literature and film. His books have been published in over four dozen languages and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, Le Monde and The New Yorker, among others. His awards include the Cannes Film Festival's "Caméra d'Or" (2007), the Charles Bronfman Prize (2016) and the prestigious Sapir Prize (2018). Over a hundred short films and several feature films have been based on his stories. Keret teaches creative writing at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Since 2021, he has been publishing the weekly newsletter "Alphabet Soup" on Substack.
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David Grossman
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Leading Israeli novelist David Grossman (b. 1954, Jerusalem) studied philosophy and drama at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and later worked as an editor and broadcaster at Israel Radio. Grossman has written seven novels, a play, a number of short stories and novellas, and a number of books for children and youth. He has also published several books of non-fiction, including interviews with Palestinians and Israeli Arabs. Among Grossman`s many literary awards: the Valumbrosa Prize (Italy), the Eliette von Karajan Prize (Austria), the Nelly Sachs Prize (1991), the Premio Grinzane and the Premio Mondelo for The Zig-Zag Kid (Italy, 1996), the Vittorio de Sica Prize (Italy), the Juliet Club Prize, the Marsh Award for Children -
Gary Shteyngart
Gary Shteyngart is an American writer born in Leningrad, USSR (he alternately calls it "St. Leningrad" or "St. Leninsburg"). Much of his work is satirical and relies on the invention of elaborately fictitious yet somehow familiar places and times.
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Haim Sabato
Haim Sabato is an Israeli rabbi and author.
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Haim Sabato was born to a family of Aleppan-Syrian descent in Cairo. In the 1950s, his family immigrated to Israel and lived in a "ma'abara" (transit camp) in Kiryat HaYovel, Jerusalem. He studied at a Talmud Torah in Bayit Vegan, in the vicinity, and after it attended the "Netiv Meir" yeshiva-high school, also in Bayit Vegan. Rabbi Aryeh Bina, Rosh Yeshiva of "Netiv Meir", was one of his key influences.
After graduation, he joined the "Hesder" program at Yeshivat Hakotel, in the old city of Jerusalem, which combines yeshiva studies with military service. His experiences during the Yom Kippur war, at the age of 21, led him to write Adjusting Sights.
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Paulina Tuchschneider
Paulina Tuchschneider was born in 1987 in Poland and immigrated to Israel in 1989 on the first direct flight from Warsaw to Tel Aviv.
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Her debut novel, "Girl Soldier," achieved widespread acclaim, was translated into Spanish, published internationally, and later adapted into a short film. An essay on her work, "About Swimming," appeared in "Neue Rundschau," the prestigious literary journal of Fischer Verlag in Germany.
She was invited to a residency on the Costa Brava by the literary organization "Finestres." In the same castle where Truman Capote had worked on "In Cold Blood," she wrote and investigated a murder case that had occurred in her family. The book is scheduled for publication later this year.
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Ronit Matalon
Ronit Matalon, the author of The One Facing Us and Bliss, among other books, was one of Israel’s foremost writers. Her work was been translated into six languages and honored with the prestigious Bernstein Award; the French publication of The Sound of Our Steps won the Prix Alberto-Benveniste for 2013. A journalist and critic, Matalon taught comparative literature and creative writing at Haifa University and at the Sam Spiegel Film School in Jerusalem.
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Amos Kenan
Israeli columnist, painter, sculptor, playwright and novelist.
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Kenan was a member of the Lehi underground. He considered it an anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist organisation and claims that it didn't fight the Arabs.
During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War he fought in the 8th Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces, he took part in the Deir Yassin massacre.
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Manuel de Pedrolo
Manuel de Pedrolo i Molina (l'Aranyó, la Segarra, 1 d'abril de 1918 - Barcelona, 26 de juny de 1990) fou un escriptor català. Conreà tots els gèneres literaris: poesia, teatre —classificat dins del teatre de l'absurd—, narrativa i contes. La seva obra més coneguda és Mecanoscrit del segon origen.
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Natural de l'Aranyó, va estudiar batxillerat a Tàrrega fins a l'any 1935, en què anà a viure a Barcelona; la guerra civil espanyola estroncà, però, els seus estudis. L'any 1943 es casà i s'instal·là definitivament a Barcelona, concretament en un pis-despatx de Sant Gervasi-Galvany (carrer de Calvet, 9). Començà a escriure molt jove i la seva obra l'ha convertit no tan sols en l'escriptor més prolífic sinó també en una de les figures més importants d -
Yehoshua Kenaz
Yehoshua Kenaz (Hebrew: יהושע קנז, born Yehoshua Glass in 1937) is one of Israel's leading novelists. Kenaz studied Philosophy and Romance Languages at the Hebrew University, and French literature at the Sorbonne. A translator of French classics into Hebrew, he has worked on the editorial staff of the Ha'aretz newspaper. Kenaz, currently living in Tel Aviv, was awarded the 1995 Bialik Prize.
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Haim Sabato
Haim Sabato is an Israeli rabbi and author.
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Haim Sabato was born to a family of Aleppan-Syrian descent in Cairo. In the 1950s, his family immigrated to Israel and lived in a "ma'abara" (transit camp) in Kiryat HaYovel, Jerusalem. He studied at a Talmud Torah in Bayit Vegan, in the vicinity, and after it attended the "Netiv Meir" yeshiva-high school, also in Bayit Vegan. Rabbi Aryeh Bina, Rosh Yeshiva of "Netiv Meir", was one of his key influences.
After graduation, he joined the "Hesder" program at Yeshivat Hakotel, in the old city of Jerusalem, which combines yeshiva studies with military service. His experiences during the Yom Kippur war, at the age of 21, led him to write Adjusting Sights.
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Tehila Hakimi
Tehila Hakimi is a Jewish Book Council Award– winning fiction writer and poet. She was a participant in the 2018 Fulbright International Writing Program Fellowship at the University of Iowa.
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Hakimi’s short prose and poems have been published in translation in Asymptote, World Literature Today, and The Poetry Review, among others. Hunting in America received critical acclaim when published in Hebrew, it was mentioned as Haaretz Best Book of 2023 and was longlisted for the 2023 Sapir prize. -
Dorit Rabinyan
Dorit Rabinyan (Hebrew: דורית רביניאן) is an Israeli writer and screenwriter.
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She was born in Kfar Saba to an Iranian Jewish family. She has published three novels, two of which have been widely translated. She has also published a poetry collection and an illustrated children's book. She also writes for television.
She was a close friend of Palestinian artist Hasan Hourani, and wrote a eulogy for him in The Guardian after his death in 2003.
Her 2014 novel Gader Haya (initially known as Borderlife in English, later published as All the Rivers), which tells a love story between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man, has become the center of controversy. The novel was well-received and won the Bernstein Prize. In 2015, a committee of teachers r -
Orly Castel-Bloom
Orly Castel-Bloom (Hebrew: אורלי קסטל-בלום) is an Israeli author.
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Orly Castel-Bloom was born in north Tel Aviv in 1960, to a family of Egyptian Jews. Until the age of three, she had French nannies and spoke only French. She studied film at the Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts in Ramat Gan.
Castel-Bloom lives in Tel Aviv and has two children.
Castel-Bloom's first collection of short stories, Not Far from the Center of Town, was published in 1987 by Am Oved. She is the author of 11 books, including collections of short fiction and novels. Her 1992 novel Dolly City, has been included in the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, and in 1999 she was named one of the fifty most influential women in Israel. Dolly City has been performed -
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Asher Kravitz
Asher Kravitz is an Israeli author, Pyhsics and Mathematics professor. He was born and raised in Jerusalem.
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Janice Weizman
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Janice Weizman is a Canadian-born writer living in Israel. Her first novel, The Wayward Moon, was the Recipient of the 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal and the winner of the 2013 Midwest Book Award.
Her second novel, Our Little Histories, came out in August 2023 with Toby Press.
A selection of Janice's other writing, including essays, articles, translations and book reviews can be found on her website at www.janiceweizman.com
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Edna Mazya
Edna Mazya was born in Tel Aviv in 1949. She was one of Israel's most lauded and popular playwrights. In 1997 she received the Margalit Prize for her play Family Story. Her performed plays include Wien by the Sea (Haifa, 1995), The Uncle from Capetown (Haifa, 1995), Games in the Backyard (Haifa, 1993), The Rebels (Cameri, 1999) and Herod (Or Am, 2000)
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Jessica Ryn
Jessica Ryn is a former midwife and homeless resettlement worker. She has recently completed her MA in Creative Writing at CCCU, and her stories have been shortlisted for the Kimberly Chambers’ Kickstarter Award, Wordsmag and the Val Wood Prize for Creative Writing. When she’s not scribbling away, Jessica can be found meandering through the woods, reading stories that pull on the feel-strings and eating yoghurt-covered skittles. Jessica lives in Dover with her husband, two children and their high-spirited springer spaniel. The Extraordinary Hope of Dawn Brightside is her debut novel.
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Ferran Sáez Mateu
Ferran Sáez Mateu es un escritor y profesor universitario español, especialista en Montaigne, sobre quién hizo la tesis doctoral y varios estudios y traducciones.
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Ferran Sáez Mateu és un escriptor i professor universitari, especialista en Montaigne, sobre qui va fer la tesi doctoral i diversos estudis i traduccions.