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Orly Castel-Bloom

Orly Castel-Bloom was born in 1960 in Tel Aviv, into a French-speaking family of Egyptian Jews: until the age of three she was raised by French nannies and spoke only French. She studied film at Tel Aviv University and theatre at the Beit Zvi school, then in 1987 published a first collection of short stories. She has taught writing at Tel Aviv University, has received the Prime Minister's Prize several times and, in 2015, the Sapir Prize. She lives in Tel Aviv.

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