Feb 15
The roar of the desert--a journey to Israel's back yard.
Gundar-Goshen will discuss her second work of fiction, Waking Lions, the first Israeli novel to engage with African refugee experiences in Israel.
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen's first novel, One Night, Markovitch , won the Sapir Prize in 2012 for debut novels, the Italian Adei-Wizo Prize (Florence, 2016), and the French Adei-Wizo Prize (Paris, 2017). The novel was long-listed for the Italian Sinbad Prize, and for Grand prix des lectrices de Elle, and translated to 14 languages.
Her second novel, Waking Lions, won the 2017 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize. The New York Times Book Review picked Waking Lions as 'Editors' Choice', and The Wall Street Journal included the novel on its 'Best Summer Reads' list.
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.