Ayelet Tsabari author biography, plus links to books by Ayelet Tsabari.

Ayelet Tsabari

Ayelet Tsabari was born in Israel to a large family of Yemeni descent. After serving in the Israeli army, she traveled extensively throughout Southeast Asia and North America, and now lives in Tel Aviv. She teaches creative writing at the University of King's College's MFA Program in Creative Nonfiction and at Tel Aviv University. Tsabari's first book, The Best Place on Earth, won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish Fiction, and was nominated for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. It was also a New York Times Editors' Choice pick and included in Kirkus Reviews' Best Debut Fiction of 2016. Essays from this book have also won several awards, including a National Magazine Award. In addition to writing, Tsabari has worked as a photographer and a journalist.

This biography was last updated on 02/19/2019.

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