Gail Hareven ( he, גַּיִל הַרְאֶבֶן); born 1959

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

) is an

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author.

Biography

Gail Hareven studied at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Shalom Hartman Institute. Her work appears in

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. She has published eleven books. In 2002, she was awarded the

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for ''The Confessions of Noa Weber'', about the struggle between feminist ideology and yearning for love and spirituality. ''The Confessions of Noa Weber'' is her first book translated into English. It won the 2009 Best Translated Book Award for the Hebrew to English translation by Dalya Bilu. According to one literary critic, "Hareven's insights into desperate yearning are so dead on and painfully astute, the experience can be eviscerating. That the work is also witty and compelling will leave American readers, encountering Hareven for the first time, almost certainly pining for more." In 2012, Hareven was an artist-in-residence at

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. In 2013, Hareven received the Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works.

Published works

English

*''The confessions of Noa Weber: a novel'', Translated Dalya Bilu, Melville House, 2009, *''Hope, If We Insist'' *''Lies, First Person'',

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, 2015,

Hebrew

ארוחת צהרים עם אמא, סיפורים, 1993.
הסיפור האמיתי, רומן, 1994.
תקווה אם נתעקש, 1996.
מוזה, רומן, 1995.
הבוקר הרגתי איש, קובץ סיפורים, 1997.
הדרך לגן עדן, קובץ סיפורים, מדע בדיוני, 1999.
שאהבה נפשי, רומן, 2001. עליו זכתה בפרס ספיר, 2002.
חיי מלאך, רומן, 2003.
האיש הנכון, רומן, 2005.
שפת קיר, אלבום ציורי גרפיטי (יחד עם עליזה אולמרט), 2007
השקרים האחרונים של הגוף, רומן, 2008
לב מתעורר, רומן, 2010

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