Zeruya Shalev

Zeruya Shalev was born in 1959 at Kibbutz Kinneret, grew up in Beit Berl, where her father, the critic Mordechai Shalev, taught, and studied the Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. An editor by profession, she published a collection of poems in 1988, then in 1993 her first book of prose. Her novels, translated into more than twenty-five languages, have received, among others, the Corine Prize in Germany and, in 2014, the Prix Femina étranger. She was seriously wounded in 2004 in Jerusalem, in an attack on a bus.

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• NovelLove Lifeחיי אהבהZeruya Shalev · 1997Literature