Galit Dahan Carlibach (in Hebrew גלית דהן קרליבך, born 1981) is an
Israeli
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author. She has published 7 books,
short stories, essays and travel-literature.
Biography
Dahan Carlibach was born in 1981 in the
development town of
Sderot. She grew up there and in
Ashdod
Ashdod ( he, ''ʾašdōḏ''; ar, أسدود or إسدود ''ʾisdūd'' or '' ʾasdūd'' ; Philistine: 𐤀𐤔𐤃𐤃 *''ʾašdūd'') is the sixth-largest city in Israel. Located in the country's Southern District, it lies on the Mediterran ...
and
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
. She studied
screenwriting in the
Ma'aleh school in Jerusalem.
Some of her work has been translated to
English
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,
Spanish and
German
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. Her short story Linber was included in the bilingual German-Hebrew collection We Don't Forget, We Go Dancing, and won first prize in the competition of the online magazine Berlin Today. Other short stories have appeared in English in
Lilith (magazine)
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and
Tablet magazine
''Tablet'' is an online magazine focused on Jewish news and culture. The magazine was founded in 2009 and is supported by the Nextbook foundation. Its editor-in-chief is Alana Newhouse.
History
''Tablet'' was founded in 2009 with the suppor ...
.
Her first
Novel
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was published in 2010, to critical and commercial acclaim.
Awards and Grants
*
Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works (2014)
*
ACUM Devora Omer Award (2014)
*
National Library of Israel
The National Library of Israel (NLI; he, הספרייה הלאומית, translit=HaSifria HaLeumit; ar, المكتبة الوطنية في إسرائيل), formerly Jewish National and University Library (JNUL; he, בית הספרים הלא ...
Pardes scholarship for young writers (2013-2014)
* Fulbright International writing program of
Iowa University
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, where she wrote three short stories (2016)
*Shanghai writing program, 2017
Works
Novels
* ''The Locked Garden,''
Kinneret-Zmora-Bitan, 2010
* ''Ghost Town'', Booxilla (digital publisher), 2014
* ''The Hedge'', Kinneret-Zmora-Bitan ,2014
* ''Alice's Storm'', Kinneret-Zmora-Bitan, 2017
*''It's me, Iowa,'' Graff, 2018
Young adult titles
*''Arpilea'' fantasy series
**Book 1: ''Mystia'', Kinneret-Zmora-Bitan, 2013
**Book 2: ''The Return Of Ten Times'', Kinneret-Zmora-Bitan, 2015
References
External links
Galit Dahan-Carlibach's official website
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Israeli opinion journalists
Israeli children's writers
Israeli women children's writers
1981 births
Living people
Recipients of Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works