Zeruya Shalev

Zeruya Shalev (Hebrew צרויה שלו; * April 13, 1959 at Kibbutz Kinneret at the Sea of ​​Galilee in Galilee, Israel) is an Israeli writer.

Life

Zeruya Shalev is the daughter of a painter and an art teacher and a renowned literary critic and Bible scholar and a cousin of the writer Meir Shalev. She was born in Kibbutz Kinneret and grew up in Beit Berl. After her time in the military, where it was used as a social worker, she studied Biblical Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She works as a writer and publishing editor. Since 1993 she is married to the writer and journalist Eyal Megged. She lives with her third husband, two children from different marriages and an adopted child Jerusalem. On January 29, 2004, she was there, seriously injured in an attack of a suicide bomber.

Novels

Zeruya Shalev's novels have been translated into more than 22 languages. Known in Germany, she won the first volume of a trilogy about modern love love life. Here she describes the internal stresses of a young woman in an older man, a friend of her father, falls in love and depending forfeited to him. Based on the novel Maria Schrader and Laila Stieler who wrote the screenplay for the film of the same love life, on 8 November 2007, had cinema release.

In men and women, the failure of a marriage is described. The protagonist is left after many years living together surprising her husband, sees this as an opportunity and innovation remain with their child for the time being left alone.

The last volume of her trilogy, Late Family, explores the failure of a marriage and the process of dramatic crises that ultimately open up the possibility of a " late family".

Works

Novels

  • Love Life ( 2000) ISBN 3-8270-0277- X; Berliner Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-442-76000-3.
  • Man and Woman ( 2001) ISBN 3-8270-0397-0.
  • Late Family (2005) ISBN 3-8270-0474-8.
  • For the rest of life, from the Hebrew by Mirjam Pressler. Berlin -Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-8270-0989-0.

Children's Books

  • Mama Dearest Boy ( 2006) ISBN 3-407-79345-6.

Films

  • Love Life ( 2007) - Director: Maria Schrader

Prizes and awards

  • ACUM Prize, Israel in 1997, 2003, 2005
  • Corine Prize ( International Book Prize ), Germany, 2001
  • Golden Book Prize (awarded by the Israeli Publishers Association ), Israel
  • WELT Literature Prize, 2012
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