Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen (Hebrew: איילת גונדר-גושן; born 1982) is an Israeli author.[1]

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.

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 on the Berlinale Talent Campus (Berlin, 2012).

Her first novel, One Night, Markovitch (2012),[2] won the Sapir Prize in 2013 for debut novels.[1] The Hebrew novel was translated into thirteen languages. One Night, Markovitch won the Italian Adei-Wizo Prize (Italy, 2016), which Gundar-Goshen shared with Etgar Keret, as well as the French Adei-Wizo Prize (Paris, 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),[3] was translated to thirteen languages.[1] It won the 2017 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize.[4], which Gundar-Goshen Shared with Philippe Sands. The New York Times Book Review picked "Waking Lions" as "[Editors' Choice]",[5] and The Wall Street Journal included the novel on its "[ Best Summer Reads]" list.[6] Mariella Frostrup Picked Waking Lions as one of her Books of the 2016 in the Observer[7].

Gundar-Goshen is a contributor to BBC The Cultural Frontline. She is also an occasional contributor to the Financial Times, Time Magazine and The Telegraph.

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

  1. 1 2 3 Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: ‘We Israelis tend to forget that we are a nation of refugees’ By Hannah Beckerman, March 13, 2016, guardian.com/
  2. ↑ One Night, Markovitch, the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature
  3. ↑ Waking Lions, the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature
  4. ↑ Benedicte Page (February 23, 2017). "Sands and Gundar-Goshen win JQ Wingate Literary Prize". The Bookseller. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
  5. ↑ NY Times Book review, March 15, 2017.
  6. ↑ Best Summer Reads, 2016, Wall Street Journal.
  7. ↑ Best Books of 2016, guardian.com


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