Dorit Peleg was born in Haifa, Israel (1953), and lived for extended periods in Ethiopia, South America, Spain, China, and Nuweiba, Egypt. She studied computers, film, and history and philosophy of science and ideas. She worked (among other jobs) as a software engineer, a saleswoman at a kiosk, a melon-picker, a Chinese-style Hebrew teacher, and […]
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Itamar Orlev was born in 1975 in Jerusalem. He has published short stories in prominent Israeli literary magazines, such as Moznaim, Massmerim, and Mitaam. His first novel, Bandit, won the 2015 Sapir Prize for a first novel and the 2015 Rabinowitz Foundation translation scholarship. His play, Blindness, won first prize at the 2009 Beit Lessin Theatre Open Stage festival. He […]
Tahel Frosh is a poet, writer, and social activist living in Tel Aviv. She has earned degrees in law and psychology and is currently working on a doctorate in literature. Her first collection of poems, Avarice (where the lyrical story “Richard Nixon, My Mother” appears), was published in 2014 and has received excellent responses. Her poems have appeared […]
Boaz Izraeli was born in 1960 and has published five collections of short stories. His stories are published regularly in Israeli magazines and online literary sites and have also been translated into English, Italian, and Spanish and published in different anthologies. He lives in Tel Aviv.
Yossel Birstein, Hebrew and Yiddish author, was born in 1920 in the small town of Biala-Podolsk, Poland, which he frequently revisited in his books. He studied in a cheder (religious Jewish school) and was a member of Hashomer Hatzair (the socialist-Zionist youth movement). At the age of seventeen, he boarded a ship and immigrated to […]
Lavie Tidhar is a trilingual author. He was born in 1976 in a kibbutz in Israel and widely traveled. He currently resides in London. Tidhar is the author of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize-winning and Premio Roma nominee A Man Lies Dreaming (2014), the World Fantasy Award-winning Osama (2011), and the critically acclaimed The Violent […]
Alice Bialsky was born in Moscow, and immigrated to Israel in 1990 at the age of 20. Bialsky studied film and television at Tel Aviv University. She directed a number of documentaries that were broadcast in Israel and abroad. The Crown Not Heavy is her literary debut.
Rave Sagie was born in 1972 in kibbutz Gvat in Jezreel Valley in northern Israel, where he was raised. After living in Australia and England, he returned to Israel and worked in various jobs, including waiting tables and in a computer company. He has published two novels, a young adult novel, and a collection of short stories. He is […]
Tamar Levit was born in Tel Aviv in 1986. She obtained her bachelor’s degree from Tel Aviv University’s Marc Rich Honors Program in the Humanities and Arts. A short film written by Levit was sponsored by the Second Authority for Television and Radio’s Snunit Foundation and has won several student competitions. Levit currently lives in […]
Tamar Gelbetz was born in Tel Aviv in 1957 and was raised in Tel Aviv, Be’er Sheva and Haifa. Gelbetz served as a military reporter in the IDF and studied cinema, television and English literature at Tel Aviv University. In 2004, her short story “Peas” received a special citation in Haaretz‘s short story competition. She […]
Dorit Rabinyan (1972) was born in Israel to a Jewish family of Iranian descent. Her two novels, Persian Brides (Canongate, 1997) and Strand Of A Thousand Pearls (Random House, 2002) became international bestsellers and have been translated into 15 languages. In addition, Rabinyan wrote a children’s book and a script for Israeli commercial television, “Shuli’s Fiancé,” which won the Israeli Film […]
Tamar Merin is a writer, critic, and literary scholar. She was born in Tel Aviv and attended Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts, majoring in theater. Upon completing her military service, she joined the Rina Schenfeld Dance Company. Her first book, Children, was published in 2015 and earned her the Minister of Culture Prize […]
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