- Batya Gur
Batya Gur (20 January 1947,
Tel Aviv - 19 May 2005) was anIsrael i writer, specializing indetective fiction .She received a master's degree in comparative literature from the
Hebrew University . She taught literature in high schools and spent a number of years in the U.S.Gur was known for her social and political sensitivity, and has published a non-fiction book called "Next to the Hunger Road" (Keter, 1990). She has also published several works of fiction, among them "I Didn't Imagine It Would Be This Way" (Keter, 1994).
Gur served as a literature critic and essayist for the newspaper "
Haaretz ".In 1988 she began writing a series starring the character of police detective Michael Ohayon: an educated, pensive, and intellectual detective who captivated the Hebrew reader. Five sequels ensued. The first book was adapted as a film for Israeli television. In every book in the series Michael Ohayon enters a closed world, an isolated society, with rules of its own (for example
psychoanalysts , or members of akibbutz ). By his fundamental approach and his inner understanding of human nature, Ohayon succeeds in breaking the ring of silence and solving the murder mystery on his way to the next book. Gur is infamous for basing some of her characters on real gossip in academic circles - likeDavid Lodge - and for many readers part of the fun of reading her books is to try to match her characters with the real people who may have inspired them.Books published in English
* "The Saturday Morning Murder: A Psychoanalytic Case". New York, HarperCollins, 1992, ISBN 0-06-019024-8 (hardcover). New York, Harper Perennial, 1993, ISBN 0-06-099508-4 (paperback).
* "Murder on a Kibbutz: A Communal Case". New York, HarperCollins, 1994, ISBN 0-06-019026-4 (hardcover). New York, Harper Perennial, 1995, ISBN 0-06-092654-6 (paperback).
* "A Literary Murder". New York, HarperCollins, 1993, ISBN 0-06-019023-X (hardcover); New York, Harper Perennial, 1994, ISBN 0-06-092548-5 (paperback).
* "Murder Duet: a Musical Case". New York, HarperCollins, 1999, ISBN 0-06-017268-1 (hardcover); New York, Harper Perennial, 2000, ISBN 0-06-093298-8 (paperback).
* "Bethlehem Road Murder: A Michael Ohayon Mystery". New York, HarperCollins, 2004, ISBN 0-06-019573-8.
* "Stone for Stone". New York, HarperCollins, forthcoming.References
[http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%AA%D7%99%D7%94_%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A8 בתיה גור] (Batya Gur) in the Hebrew Wikipedia. Retrieved December 29, 2004.
Murder in Jerusalem: A Michael Ohayon mystery; translated by Evan Fallenberg ISBN 13: 978-0-06-085293-1 and ISBN-10: 0-06-085293-3Harper, 2007
External links
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/30/obituaries/30gur.html? New York Times obituary for Batya Gur]
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