Shulamit Gilboa

Shulamit Gilboa was born in Tel Aviv in 1943, and began publishing poems and short stories at an early age. She holds a BA in Hebrew literature and an MA in philosophy from Tel Aviv University. Gilboa has taught philosophy at academic level and literature at high school. For over twenty years, she was deputy, then literary editor of the daily Yedioth Ahronoth. Gilboa has received the Tel Aviv Literature and Art Foundation Award (1999), and a writing stipend at Oxford University in 1999. Her bestseller, Four Men and a Woman, was awarded the Book Publishers Association`s Gold and Platinum Book Prizes (2000).


Books Published in Hebrew
Either Winter or Its End (stories), Sifriat Poalim, 1982 [O Horef O Sofoh]
The Fourth Lie (stories), Hakibbutz Hameuchad/Siman Kriah, 1993 [Ha-Sheker Ha-Revi`i]
Four Men and a Woman (novel), Yedioth Ahronoth, 2000 [Arba Gvarim Ve Isha]
Alma`s Way (novel), Yedioth Ahronoth, 2003 [Derech Alma]
Lethal Wife (novel), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2005 [Isha Katlanit]
Separate Unit, with Itamar Gilboa, (novel), Yedioth Ahronoth, 2008

Books in Translation
Four Men and a Woman
German: Munich, Bertelsmann, 2002

Manuscripts available (for publishers only) in English translation
Four Men and a Woman (excerpt)


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