Zeruya Shalev
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Zeruya Shalev (born May 13, 1959) is a bestselling Israel
i author.
Zeruya Shalev was born on Kibbutz
Kinneret. She has an MA in Bible
studies and works as a literary editor at Keshet publishing house. On January 29, 2004, when she was returning to her home in Rehavia
, Jerusalem, after taking her child to kindergarten, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew up a city bus
as she was passing by. It took her four months to recover from her injuries. Shalev is married to Ayal Megged, son of Aharon Megged
. Her cousin is the author Meir Shalev
.
s, a book of poetry
and a children's book. Her novels Love Life, Husband and Wife and Thera have received critical acclaim both in Israel and abroad. They have been translated into 21 languages and were bestsellers in several countries. Shalev has been awarded the Book Publishers' Association's Gold and Platinum Prizes, the German Corine Literature Prize
(2001), the French Amphi Award, and the ACUM prize three times (1997, 2003, 2005). Husband and Wife was nominated for the French Femina
prize (2002), and is included in the French Fnac list of the 200 Best Books of the Decade. Love Life has been adapted for the screen, and was ranked by the German newspaper Der Spiegel
among the twenty best novels of the last forty years, alongside works of Saul Bellow
and Philip Roth
.
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i author.
Zeruya Shalev was born on Kibbutz
Kibbutz
A kibbutz is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises. Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism...
Kinneret. She has an MA in Bible
Bible
The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
studies and works as a literary editor at Keshet publishing house. On January 29, 2004, when she was returning to her home in Rehavia
Rehavia
Rehavia is an upscale Jerusalem neighborhood located between the city center and Talbiya.-History:Rehavia was established on a large plot of land purchased in 1921 from the Greek Orthodox Church by the Palestine Land Development Company . The area was known at the time as Ginzaria, a native...
, Jerusalem, after taking her child to kindergarten, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew up a city bus
Jerusalem bus 19 massacre
The Gaza Street bus bombing was a suicide bombing on Gaza Street in central Jerusalem, Israel on January 29, 2004. A Palestinian bomber detonated an explosive belt on an Egged bus #19 traveling between the two campuses of Hadassah Medical Center...
as she was passing by. It took her four months to recover from her injuries. Shalev is married to Ayal Megged, son of Aharon Megged
Aharon Megged
Aharon Megged is an Israeli author and playwright.-Biography:Aharon Megged was born in 1920 in Włocławek, Poland, and in 1926 immigrated with his parents to Mandate Palestine. He grew up in Ra'anana, attending the Herzliya high school in Tel Aviv...
. Her cousin is the author Meir Shalev
Meir Shalev
Meir Shalev is an Israeli writer. He is the son of the Jerusalemite poet Yitzchak Shalev. His cousin Zeruya Shalev is also a writer.- Biography :...
.
Literary career
Shalev has published four novelNovel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
s, a book of poetry
Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
and a children's book. Her novels Love Life, Husband and Wife and Thera have received critical acclaim both in Israel and abroad. They have been translated into 21 languages and were bestsellers in several countries. Shalev has been awarded the Book Publishers' Association's Gold and Platinum Prizes, the German Corine Literature Prize
Corine Literature Prize
The Corine – International Book Prize, as it is officially called, is a German literature prize created by theBavarian Landesverband of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels first awarded in 2001...
(2001), the French Amphi Award, and the ACUM prize three times (1997, 2003, 2005). Husband and Wife was nominated for the French Femina
Femina
Femina is a Latin noun meaning 'woman'.It is the title of five magazines:*Femina , a fortnightly women's magazine owned by the Times Group and published in India since July 1959*Femina , the first women's magazine in Indonesia...
prize (2002), and is included in the French Fnac list of the 200 Best Books of the Decade. Love Life has been adapted for the screen, and was ranked by the German newspaper Der Spiegel
Der Spiegel
Der Spiegel is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. It is one of Europe's largest publications of its kind, with a weekly circulation of more than one million.-Overview:...
among the twenty best novels of the last forty years, alongside works of Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow was a Canadian-born Jewish American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts...
and Philip Roth
Philip Roth
Philip Milton Roth is an American novelist. He gained fame with the 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus, an irreverent and humorous portrait of Jewish-American life that earned him a National Book Award...
.