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Atar Hadari 

Atar Hadari was born in Israel, raised in England, trained as an actor and writer at the University of East Anglia before winning a scholarship to study poetry and playwrighting with Derek Walcott at Boston…...

Ofir Touche Gafla 

Ofir Touche Gafla was born in Israel in 1968. Before he became a novelist, he wrote scripts for animation, a rock opera (Quartet & Quinteta), a series of short stories (Bodycase) and a children's…...

Raji Bathish 

Raji Bathish is a writer, screenwriter and cultural activist born in the town of Nazareth in 1970. He  writes in Arabic and his work has been published all around the Arab world and in Israel-Palestine.…...

Igal Sarna 

Igal Sarna, born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1952, writes feature stories for the daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot. After serving as a tank commander in the Yom Kippur War in 1973, he was one of the ex-soldiers…...

Rutu Modan 

Rutu Modan was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1966.  After graduating from the distinguished Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, she began regularly writing and illustrating comic strips…...

Dalya Bilu 

Dalya Bilu is the translator of A.B.Yehoshua, Aharon Appelfeld and many others. She has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Israel Culture and Education Ministry Prize for Translation, and the…...

Dror Burstein 

Dror Burstein was born in 1970 in Netanya, Israel, and lives in Tel Aviv. He first became a fully qualified lawyer, then he left the legal field and started studying literature. He received a PhD in Hebrew…...

A. B. Yehoshua 

Leading author A. B. Yehoshua was born in Jerusalem in 1936, the fifth generation of a Sephardi Jerusalemite family. After studying Hebrew literature and Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,…...

Rivka Keren 

Rivka Keren (b. 1946, Debrecen, Hungary) immigrated to Israel in 1957 and attained formal training in art, literature, philosophy, and clinical psychology. Writing and painting since childhood, she has…...

Yehoshuah Bar-Yosef 

Yehoshua Bar-Yosef (1912-1992) was born into a religious family in Safed, a city renowned as a center for Jewish mysticism. After World War I, he studied in a yeshiva in Transylvania but returned from…...

Assaf Gavron 

Assaf Gavron is an author, translator, and musician. He has published five books of fiction and his short stories have appeared in various anthologies and publications. Among the many works he has translated…...

Ronen Altman Kaydar 

Ronen Altman Kaydar is an Israeli writer and translator who has published a novel (Chaos Butterflies) and a book of poetry (Bite Marks). Altman Kaydar edits the online literary magazine Zuta, teaches creative…...

Gilad Seliktar 

Gilad Seliktar is the illustrator of Ferme 54 (Farm 54), a graphic novel written by Galit Seliktar, which was nominated for the 2009 Angoulême book award in France. His first book, Who Are You Anyway,…...

Galit Seliktar 

Galit Seliktar has published poems, short stories, and comics in prominent literary and cultural magazines in Israel, France, the United States and England. She is the author of Ferme 54 (Farm 54), a graphic…...

Ronen Altman Kaydar 

Gilad Seliktar 

Galit Seliktar 

Margalit Rodgers 

Margalit Rodgers is a translator of contemporary Hebrew literature and plays, including works for children and young adults. She was born in Kibbutz Beit Haemek, Israel, in 1957. On completing her high…...

Yoav Avni 

Yoav Avni was born in Israel in 1969 and lives in Tel Aviv.  His first book, a collection of short stories entitled Those Strange Americans, was published in 1995 by Tamuz Publishing House. His successful…...

Agur Schiff 

Agur Schiff was born in Tel Aviv in 1955 and is a graduate of St. Martin's School of Art in London, where he specialized in animation. He won critical acclaim as a filmmaker before turning to writing.…...

Meir Shalev 

Meir Shalev was born in 1948 on Nahalal, Israel's first moshav, and is one of Israel's most celebrated novelists. His books have been translated into over twenty languages and have been bestsellers…...

Moshe Ron 

Moshe Ron was born in 1945 and grew up on the outskirts of Tel Aviv; served in the Israeli army for two years; took a BA degree in Romance Languages and English Literature from the Hebrew University of…...

Hannan Hever 

Hannan Hever is a professor of Hebrew literature at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published thirteen books about modern Hebrew literature, including the English language study, Producing the…...

Liel Leibovitz 

A native of Tel Aviv, Israel, Liel Leibovitz is the author, most recently, of Lili Marlene: The Soldiers' Song of World War II.

David Polonsky 

David Polonsky was the art director and chief illustrator for the animated film Waltz with Bashir. His illustrations have appeared in every major Israeli daily and magazine. He has created animated short…...

Ari Folman 

Ari Folman, a Tel Aviv–based filmmaker, wrote, produced, and directed the animated documentary Waltz with Bashir. His two previous feature films, Saint Clara and Made in Israel, both received numerous…...

Yehuda Amichai 

Yehuda Amichai was born in Wurzburg, Germany, in 1924 and emigrated with his family to Palestine in 1936. He later became a naturalized Israeli citizen. Although German was his native language, Amichai…...

Suzane Adam 

Suzane Adam was born in Satu Mare, Transylvania, and came to Israel at age ten. She completed her art studies majoring in medieval art, photography, and etching. She later went on to study graphic art…...

Yael Hedaya 

Yael Hedaya was born in Jerusalem in 1964. She has worked as a screenwriter for the acclaimed Israeli TV drama series Betipul (In Treatment), which was adapted for the United States and currently airs…...

Maya Arad 

Maya Arad was born in Israel in 1971 and grew up in Kibbutz Nahal-Oz. She graduated in classics and linguistics at the Tel Aviv University and has a Ph.D. in linguistics from London University. Her first…...

Dvorah Baron 

Dvorah Baron was born in 1887, in Belarussia, and published her first story, in Yiddish, in 1905. Her father, a rabbi, recognizing her genius, gave her the education normally restricted to boys, and most…...

Etgar Keret 

Etgar Keret is a fiction writer, graphic novelist, and playwright from Israel. He has published several short story collections in English, among them The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God and Other Stories…...

Alex Epstein 

Alex Epstein was born in Leningrad and has been living in Israel since the age of eight. Widely translated, Epstein is the author of three collections of short stories, most recently La-Kachol Ein Darom…...

Guy Morad 

Born in Israel in 1975, Guy Morad is a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. He is a member of the Israeli comics collective "Dimona," which is based in Tel Aviv and has produced…...

Yitzhak Laor 

Yitzhak Laor, born in 1948, in Pardes Hannah, Israel, is a poet, playwright and novelist. He completed his degree in Theater and Literature at Tel Aviv University. Laor writes literary criticism for the…...

Orly Castel-Bloom 

Orly Castel-Bloom was born in Tel Aviv in 1960 to parents originally from Egypt. After studying film at the Beit Zvi Institute and Tel Aviv University, she published her first collection of stories in…...

Sara Shilo 

Sara Shilo was born in Jerusalem and currently lives in a small town in northern Israel with her family. Her first novel, Shum Gamadim Lo Yavou, was published in 2005.

Sayed Kashua 

Sayed Kashua was born in 1975 in the Galilee and studied at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He writes a weekly column for Ha'aretz, Israel's most prestigious newspaper. Kashua's first book,…...

Mahmoud Shukair 

Mahmoud Shukair was born in 1941 in Jerusalem. With a Masters degree in Philosophy and Sociology from Damascus University, he worked for many years as a teacher, journalist and editor-in-chief of the cultural…...

Azmi Bishara 

Political analyst, writer, academic, activist, and member of the Israeli parliament, Azmi Bishara is one of the region's best known public intellectuals. He is also a contributor to Al-Ahram Weekly,…...

Amir Gutfreund 

Amir Gutfreund was born in Haifa in 1963. After studying applied mathematics at the Technion, he joined the Israeli Air Force. Our Holocaust is his first novel. Awarded the Sapir Prize in 2003, Gutfreund…...

Nira Harel 

Nira Harel has written many children's books and has won numerous prizes in Israel and abroad. Please Leave a Message won the Prix Espace Enfants in 1998. Her book The Key to My Heart was published…...

Shimon Ballas 

Shimon Ballas was born in Baghdad in 1930 and emigrated to Israel in 1951. A major novelist, Ballas has published fifteen works of fiction, several important studies on contemporary Arabic literature,…...

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