Avigail Graetz, Galit Dahan Carlibach, Ayman Sikseck, Michal Pitowsky
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An author, has published three books, Asphalt (2012), The Commune (2017) and Things That Happen in the Places (2019) – as well as critical reviews for the Walla Culture website and numerous short stories in various journals and anthologies.
An author, literary critic and journalist, was born in 1984 in Jaffa, where he still resides today. His debut novel, To Jaffa, was published in 2010, and translated to Arabic and German. His second novel, Blood Ties (2016), won him the Prime Minister's Prize in 2017 and was nominated for the Sapir Literary Prize.
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Was born in Israel in 1975 and grew up in Omer, a small town near Beersheba. She holds a B.A in Film from Tel Aviv University and an M.F.A from Ben-Gurion University in Creative Writing. She taught Bible and Midrash from a secular critical perspective in BINA - Secular Yeshiva. She teaches courses on "Israeli Society as Seen Through Film" for the Overseas Program at Ben-Gurion University and "Mindfulness" at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya. Graetz has written four plays that were performed on stage. Her play, Ona’at Devarim/Verbal Wrongs, was featured in the Akko Festival and In Case I’m not Around, which she also directed, was featured in the Israel Festival. Graetz was awarded the Jewish National Fund-Hebrew Literature Prize (2012) for her debut novel, A Rabbi’s Daughter. She has published several short stories, as well as poetry, and had a weekly column that integrated the “Portion of the Week” with Buddhist philosophy.
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Was born in 1981 and grew up in Sderot, Ashdod and Jerusalem. She is the author of seven books, an essayist and screenwriter and teaches creative writing. Galit is a recipient of the 2013 ACUM Devorah Omer Prize, 2014 Prime Minister’s Prize, the Fulbright International Writing Program (IWP) at the University of Iowa, the Shanghai Writing Program and the Mediterranean Writers Program in Spain. Her novel, Alice's Storm, was longlisted for the Sapir Prize in 2017.
