YAEL NEEMAN was born in Kibbutz Yehiam, Israel in 1960. She studied Literature and Philosophy at Tel Aviv University and participated in the International Writing Program (IWP) in Iowa City through the Fulbright Foundation. She is the author of two novels, Orange Tuesday and Rumors About Love, and a collection of stories, The Option. We Were the Future, originally published in Hebrew, was a number one bestseller in Israel and has been translated into French, Polish, and Dutch. Neeman was awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Hebrew Writers in 2015.
SONDRA SILVERSTON has translated fiction by contemporary authors such as Etgar Keret, Savyon Liebrecht, and Aharon Megged, among others.
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