Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen (Hebrew: איילת גונדר-גושן; born 1982) is an Israeli author.
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 is a clinical psychologist and teaches psychology in Tel Aviv University and the Holon Institute of Technology.
For her short story "Shkia'a" she was awarded 2nd prize at the IEMed European short story competition (Barcelona, 2010) and the Gottlieb Sceenplay Prize (2010).
She writes screenplays for short films in Israel, and won the Berlin Today Award from the Berlinale Talents (Berlin, 2012) for her short film "Batman at the Checkpoint".
Her first novel, One Night, Markovitch (2012),[1] won the Sapir Prize in 2013 for debut novels. The Hebrew novel was translated to German, English, Italian, Dutch and Romanian, and published in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, United Kingdom and Canada.
Her second novel, Waking Lions (2014),[2] was translated to German, Turkish and English.
Novels
- One Night, Markovitch; London, Pushkin Press, 2015; new pback ed.: 2015; Toronto, Anansi, 2015
- Waking Lions; London, Pushkin Press, 2016; pback: 2016; New York, Little, Brown
References
- ↑ One Night, Markovitch, the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature
- ↑ Waking Lions, the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature
External links
- Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, the WorldCat Database
- Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature