Yael Hedaya

Yael Hedaya was born in Jerusalem in 1964, and now lives in Messilat Zion. She holds a BA in philosophy and liberal arts from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and received an MA in English literature and creative writing from New York University. Hedaya has worked as a journalist and columnist for the mass circulation daily Yedioth Ahronoth and the Tel Aviv weekly, Ha`Ir. At present, she teaches creative writing at the Hebrew University.

Books Published in Hebrew
Dramatic Persona (novel), Sifriat Ma’ariv, 1994 [Ha-Nefashot Ha-Poalot]
Housebroken (novellas), Am Oved, 1997 [Shlosha Sipurey Ahava]
Accidents (novel), Am Oved, 2001 [Teunot]
Eden (novel), Am Oved, 2005 [Eden]

Books in Translation
Housebroken
English: New York, Metropolitan Books, 2001; pback: New York, Picador, 2002
French: Arles, Actes Sud, 2002
German: Zurich, Diogenes, 2000; 2006
Italian: Torino, Einaudi, 2001
Dutch: Amsterdam, Meulenhoff, 1999

Accidents
German: Zurich, Diogenes, 2003
English: New York, Metropolitan Books, 2004

Eden
English: New York, Picador, forthcoming
German: Zurich, Diogenes, 2008
Dutch: Amsterdam, Meulenhoff, 2007


Last updated: 18.05.2009




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