Roy Chen is a writer, playwright and translator. Born in 1980 in Tel-Aviv, Israel, where he lives with his wife and son. Chen is the author of the novels Great uproar, (2023) and Souls, (נשמות Keter, 2020), which has been translated into Italian (Anime, Giuntina, 2022) and Russian (Души, Phantom Press, 2021). Since 2007, he […]
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Riky Cohen (1969) is an Israeli poet and writer. She writes short fiction and is co-editor if “Hmusach” ( “The Garage”), a digital literary magazine. Her first book of poems, “A Dirty Pile in Every Room,” was published in 2014. In 2016 she edited “You Were not Born a Woman,” an anthology of poetry and […]
Yaara Shehori is an Israeli novelist. She has been an editor of Hebrew literature at the Keter Publishing House since 2013. Her first book of poems Thumb, Tooth, Wing (Am Oved Publishing) was published in 2010. Her book of novelettes Years of milk (Keter Publishing) was published in 2013. Her novel, “Aquarium”(Keter Publishing) was published in 2016. […]
Eshkol Nevo is one of the most successful writers in Israel. He was born in 1971 in Jerusalem, the grandson of Levi Eshkol, Israel’s third prime minister. As a child he lived in Israel and Detroit. He is a graduate of the psychology department at the Hebrew University and The Creative Writing program at Ben […]
Ariel Hirschfeld is an Israeli scholar and critic of literature and art and a professor of literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was born in Pardes Hannah in 1953 to parents from Germany. Hirschfeld studied Hebrew literature and musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and has been the head of the Department […]
Orly Castel-Bloom is one of Israel’s most prominent writers. She was born in Tel Aviv in 1960 to parents from Egypt, studied film at Tel Aviv University and began publishing in 1987. Her book Dolly City was translated by UNESCO to English and distributed around the world. She was recognized as one of the 50 […]
Marina Groslerner is an Israeli writer and translator. She was born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, and immigrated to Israel in 1973. her family settled in Ashdod. Marina studied philosophy and linguistics at Tel Aviv University. She has published two books, Lelia in 2002, and Window Dreams in 2007, and translated dozens of books from Spanish and […]
Tal Nitzán is an award winning poet, novelist, editor and a major translator of Hispanic literature. Author of six poetry books and four children’s book, and editor of three poetry anthologies. Her debut novel, Each and every Child was published in 2015. She has resided in Buenos Aires, Bogotá and New York. Currently lives in Tel Aviv. Her […]
Yitzhak Auerbach-Orpaz is an Israeli writer. He was born in Zinkov, Russia, in 1921. In 1938, at the age of 17, he came to Israel as part of Youth Aliyah and joined Magdiel settlement. In the autumn of 1942 he received the news about the death of his parents and sister in Transnistria, Romania. He […]
Sharron Hass (1966) is an Israeli poet, essayist, and teacher. She studied classical studies at Tel Aviv University and taught there. She lectures on literature and poetry at the Kerem Institute for Teacher Training in Jerusalem, as well as at Tel Aviv and Ben-Gurion Universities. She has published five poetry books to date and has […]
Reuven Namdar is an Israeli writer. He was born in 1964 in Jerusalem, to a family of descendants of the Marranos of Mashhad in Iran. Namdar holds a master’s degree in anthropology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He published stories, literary reviews and translations into classical Persian poetry. His first book, “Haviv” won the […]
Gadi Taub is an Israeli writer and journalist. He was born in Jerusalem in 1965 and studied at the Hebrew University’s high school. He served as a radio presenter and also as a TV presenter of The Israeli Educational Television. Taub is a graduate of Tel Aviv University in history and interdisciplinary studies and holds […]
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