Lizzie Doron

Lizzie Doron was born in Tel Aviv in 1953. She studied linguistics before becoming a writer. She became known especially for novels about the second generation after the Holocaust. Her works include “Ruhige Zeiten,” “Who the Fuck Is Kafka,” and “Sweet Occupation,” which also address political themes and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She received the Buchman Prize, awarded by Yad Vashem, for “Ruhige Zeiten.” Her other distinctions include the Jeanette Schocken Prize (2007) and the Peace Prize of the Geschwister Korn and Gerstenmann Foundation (2018). In 2019, she was Friedrich Dürrenmatt Visiting Professor of World Literature at the University of Bern.