Gail Haraven is a writer from Israel. She is the author of six novels and three short story collections, as well as plays and nonfiction. In 2002, she was awarded the prestigious Sapir Prize for Literature for The Confessions of Noa Weber, and currently lives in Jerusalem. The Confessions of Noa Weber is her first book translated into English, it won the 2009 Best Translated Book Award

Best Translated Book Award

Best Translated Book Award is an annual literature award given by Three Percent, the online literature magazine of Open Letter Books, which is the book translation press of the University of Rochester. It is awarded to the best original translation published that year. A long list and short list...

for the Hebrew to English translation by Dalya Bilu.

External links

• The Slows, a short story
• http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=112