Two leading Israeli authors represented by ITHL have been shortlisted for the JQ-Wingate Prize: Zeruya Shalev, for her best selling award winning novel 'The Remains of Love' (Bloomsbury), and Dror Burstein for his outstanding novel 'Netanya' (Dalkey Archive).

Boyd Tonkin, the literary editor of the London Independent, has just listed two books represented by ITHL among the best foreign fiction published in the UK in 2014 : Neuland by Eshkol Nevo (translator Sondra Silverstone), published by Chatto & Windus) and Married Life by David Vogel (translator Dalya Bilu; published by Scribe). Click here for the full article.

PRESS RELEASE 3.11.2014 The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature is proud to announce that Zeruya Shalev was awarded this afternoon the prestigious PRIX FEMINA 2014 for foreign fiction. Click here to read more!

Orly Castel-Bloom's recent novel, Textile, published by The Feminist Press, New York, receives a great review. Click here to read it.

Todd has won the coveted 2013 Risa Domb/Porjes Translation Prize for Asaf Schurr’s novel wonderful novel, MOTTI (Dalkey Archive). The prize is awarded by the UK Jewish Book Council every three years in association with the Times Literary Supplement. ‘It is never easy to separate an author’s talents from that of his or her book's translator, but Todd Hasak-Lowy’s translation of this highly original novel is not only lucid and engaging, but also conveys many of the undertones that define present-day Israel,' said Naomi Gryn, one of the judges for the prize. Todd is also the translator of Dror Burstein's novel, Netanya, recently published by Dalkey Archive.

Published in the US by Dalkey Archive, this amazing book is again making waves, together with Castel-Bloom`s more recent novel, Textile, published by The Feminist Press.

Mishka Ben-David’s first thriller to appear in translation (London, Peter Halban) raised a storm within hours of its publication in English. The headline in The Guardian:“From Mossad agent to spy novelist: undercover life inspires hit thriller.” Reuters/ITN and BBC grabbed Ben-David for interviews – CNN has pursued him all the way back to Israel for an interview that will appear next week, with more to come! It`s not every day that you meet an ex-Mossad agent with a PhD in literature. Stay tuned!