Michal Govrin

Michal Govrin was born in Tel Aviv in 1950. She studied literature and theater at Tel Aviv University and received her Ph.D from the University of Paris. Govrin writes poetry and fiction, and is also a theater director, specializing in Jewish theater and ritual. She teaches drama at the Jerusalem School for Visual Theater, is academic chair of the theater department at Emunah College, and frequently lectures abroad. Govrin has been awarded the Margalit Prize for Theater Direction (1977), the Tel Aviv Foundation Award (1984), the Kugel Prize (1998) for The Name, a nomination for the Koret Jewish Book Award (USA, 1999) the Prime Minister's Prize (1998) and the ACUM Prize for Snapshots (2003). She was also decorated as Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France, 2013).