Yitzhak Goren

Yitzhak Gormezano Goren (born 1941) is an Egyptian-born Israeli writer. He was born in Alexandria but migrated to Israel as a child. He received an MFA in theater directing from Brooklyn College. He co-founded the Kedem Stage Theater in Tel Aviv in 1982, and ran it for three decades. As a writer, Gormezano Goren is known for his 1978 novel Alexandrian Summer, which was translated into English by Yardenne Greenspan. He won the Ramat Gan Prize for Literature and the Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works.[1]

He was married to the actress Shosha Goren.

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