Batya Gur

Batya Gur (1947-2005) was born in Tel Aviv and lived in Jerusalem. She wrote detective novels and was a literary critic for the daily, Haaretz. Gur studied Hebrew literature and history at the Hebrew University and completed her MA in comparative literature. Between 1972 and 1975 she lived in Greensboro, North Carolina, where she taught Hebrew and Jewish studies to elementary students. Before writing her first detective novel at the age of 39, she taught literature in high school. Her book, A Saturday Morning Murder, has been televised.

Books Published in Hebrew
A Saturday Morning Murder (novel), Keter, 1988 [Retzach Be-Shabat Ba-Boker]
A Literary Murder (novel), Keter, 1989 [Mavet Ba-Chug Le-Sifrut]
Next to the Hunger Road (essays), Keter, 1990 [Mi-Kvish Ha-Ra'av Smola: Tmuna Kvutzatit Im Nashim, Gvarim Vi-Yeladim Be-Ayeret Pituach]
Sleeping Together: Murder on Kibbutz (novel), Keter, 1991 [Lina Meshutefet: Retzach Ba-Kibbutz]
I Didn't Imagine it Would Be This Way (novel), Keter, 1994 [Lo Kach Te'arti Li]
Murder Duet: a Musical Case (novel), Keter, 1996 [Ha-Merchak Ha-Nachon: Retzach Musikali]
Stone for Stone (novel), Keter, 1998 [Even Tachat Even]
A Spy in the House (youth), Keter, 2000 [Meragel Be-Toch Ha-Bayit]
A Blue Gaze (excerpt from: I Didn't Imagine it Would Be This Way), Keter, 2000 [Mabat Kachol]
Bethlehem Road Murder, (novel), Keter, 2001 [Retzach Be-Derech Beit Lechem]
Shooting a Murder [Murder in Jerusalem] (novel), Keter, 2004 [Retzach, Metzalmim]
Without Missimg a Page (literary criticizm), Keter, 2008 [Mi-Bli Daleg Al Daf: Mivchar Masot U-Ma'amarim]

Books in Translation
The Saturday Morning Murder: A Psychoanalytic Case
German: Munich, Goldmann, 1992
English: New York, Harper Collins, 1992 New York, Harper Perennial, 1993
Danish: Copenhagen, Forum, 1997
Dutch: Amsterdam, Arena, 1996
French: Paris, Fayard, 1993; Grand livre du mois, 1993; LFG, 1998; Gallimard, 2006
Italian: Milano, Rizzoli, 1993
Japanese: Tokyo, East Press, 1994
Spanish: Madrid, Siruela, 1998; pback: 2003
Greek: Athens, Periplous, 2000
Hungarian: Budapest, Magus, 2004
Russian: Moscow, Text, 2007

Murder on a Kibbutz: A Communal Case
English: New York, Harper Collins, 1994 New York, Harper Perennial, 1995
French: Paris, Fayard, 1995; Paris, LFG, 1998, Gallimard, 2006
German: Munich, Goldmann, 1997
Dutch: Amsterdam, Arena, 1998
Spanish: Madrid, Siruela, 2000
Italian: Casale Monferrato, Piemme, 2000; pback, 2002

Literary Murder: A Critical Case
English: New York, Harper Collins, 1993
German: Munich, Goldmann, 1995
French: Paris, Fayard, 1994; Paris, LFG, 2001; Paris, Gallimard, 2007
Japanese: Tokyo, East Press, 1996
Dutch: Amsterdam, Arena, 1997
Spanish: Madrid, Siruela, 2000
Russian: Moscow/Jerusalem, Gesharim, 2003

I Didn't Imagine It Would Be This Way
German: Berlin, Berlin Verlag, 1996; Munich, Goldmann, 1998
Spanish: Madrid, Siruela, 2007

Murder Duet: a Musical Case
German: Munich, Goldmann, 1998; 2000
French: Paris, Fayard, 1997; Paris, LFG, 2000; Paris, Gallimard, 2007
English: New York, Harper Collins, 1999
Dutch: Amsterdam, Arena, 2000
Spanish: Madrid, Siruela, 2001

Stone for Stone
French: Paris, Gallimard, 2000
German: Berlin, Berlin Verlag, 1999; Frankfurt, Büchergilde Gutenberg, 2000; pback: Munich, Goldmann
Spanish: Madrid, Siruela, 2005

A Spy in the House
German: Munich, Carl Hanser, 2000
Spanish: Madrid, Siruela, 2001

Bethlehem Road Murder
English: New York, Harper Collins, 2004
French: Paris, Fayard, 2003; Paris, Gallmard, 2006
Spanish: Madrid, Siruela, 2003
German: Munich, Goldmann, 2003; 2005

Shooting a Murder [Murder in Jerusalem]
English: New York, HarperCollins, 2006; pback: New York, William Morrow, 2007 French: Paris, Gallimard, 2006
Spanish: Madrid, Siruela, 2007
German: Munich, Goldmann, 2006; pback: 2008

Requiem for Humility, or Living in Jerusalem (essay)
French: Paris, Gallimard, 2000
German: Munich, Goldmann, 2001