Zeruya Shalev

Zeruya Shalev, born May 13, 1959, on Kibbutz Kinneret, is an Israeli author. Shalev has published four novels, a book of poetry and a children's book. Her bestselling novels "Love Life" and "Husband and Wife" have received critical acclaim both in Israel and abroad. They have been translated into 21 languages and have been bestsellers in several countries. On January 29, 2004 she was returning home after taking her child to kindergarten when Bus number 19 exploded next to her. She has undergone extensive recovery over the year and a half that followed. [http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=586665&contrassID=2&subContrassID=23&sbSubContrassID=]

Shalev has been awarded the Book Publishers' Association's Gold and Platinum Prizes, the German Corine Book Award (2001), the French Amphi Award, and the ACUM Prize three times (1997, 2003, 2005). "Husband and Wife" was also nominated for the French Femina Prize (2002), and is included in the French Fnac list of the 200 Best Books of the Decade. She has an MA in Biblical studies and works as a literary editor at Keshet Publishing House.

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