Life
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen was born in Israel. She has a master's degree in psychology from Tel Aviv University. During her studies, she worked as a journalist and news editor in the leading Israeli news paper, '' Yedioth Ahronoth''. She also studied screenplay in Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem. She teaches at Tel Aviv University and the Holon Institute of Technology. She was a visiting author in San Francisco State University during 2018, and she is currently a visiting artist at University of California, Los Angeles.Writing
Gundar-Goshen writes screenplays for TV and cinema in Israel. One of her short scripts, ''Batman at the Checkpoint'', won the Berlin Today Award for the best short film in 2012 on the Berlinale Talent Campus. Her first novel, ''One Night, Markovitch'' (2012), won the Sapir Prize in 2013 for debut novels. The Hebrew novel was translated into thirteen languages. ''One Night, Markovitch'' won the Italian Adei-Wizo Prize (2016), which Gundar-Goshen shared with Etgar Keret, as well as the French Adei-Wizo Prize (2017). The novel was also long-listed for the Italian Sinbad Prize, and for Grand prix des lectrices de Elle. Gundar-Goshen's second novel, ''Waking Lions'' (2014), was also translated into thirteen languages. It won the 2017 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize, which Gundar-Goshen shared with Philippe Sands. '' The New York Times Book Review'' picked ''Waking Lions'' as an editors' choice, and '' The Wall Street Journal'' included the novel on its "Best Summer Reads" list. Mariella Frostrup picked ''Waking Lions'' as one of her Books of the Year 2016 in the '' Observer''.Novels
* ''One Night, Markovitch''; London,References
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