Zeruya Shalev ( he, צרויה שלו, born 13 May 1959) is a bestselling

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Biography

Zeruya Shalev was born on Kibbutz Kinneret. She has an MA in

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studies and works as a literary editor at Keshet publishing house. On 29 January 2004, when she was returning to her home in

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

, after taking her child to kindergarten, a Palestinian

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blew up a city bus as she was passing by. It took her four months to recover from her injuries. Shalev is married to Ayal Megged, son of

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. Her cousin is the author

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. Her brother is the mathematician

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Literary career

Shalev has published six novels, a book of

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and two children's book. Her novels ''Love Life'', ''Husband and Wife,'' ''Thera,'' ''The Remains of Love,'' and ''Pain'' have received critical acclaim both in Israel and abroad. They have been translated into 27 languages and were bestsellers in several countries. Shalev has been awarded the Book Publishers' Association's Gold and Platinum Prizes, the German

Corine Literature Prize The Corine – International Book Prize, as it is officially called, is a German literature prize created by the Bavarian chapter of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, first awarded in 2001. It is awarded to German and international "aut ...

(2001), the French Amphi Award, and the ACUM prize three times (1997, 2003, 2005). In 2012, Shalev was awarded the Welt Literaturpreis by the German newspaper ''

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'' for her body of work, acclaiming her ''great magical language''. ''Husband and Wife'' was nominated for the French Femina prize (2002), and is included in the French Fnac list of the 200 Best Books of the Decade. The novel ''Love Life'' was ranked by the German newspaper Der Spiegel among the twenty best novels of the last forty years, alongside works of

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and

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. It has been adapted for the screen as '' Love Life'' (German title ''Liebesleben''), a joint 2007 German/Israeli film directed by Maria Schrader. In 2001, she received the

for ''Mann und Frau''. In 2014, her novel ''The Remains of Love'' won the Prix Femina étranger. In 2019, she won the

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for her novel ''Pain''.

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