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Dorit Rabinyan

דורית רביניאן

Dorit Rabinyan was born in Kfar Saba, Israel, in 1972 to a Persian-Jewish family and now lives in Tel Aviv. She published her first novel at the age of 22. In addition to her novels, Rabinyan has written a screenplay for commercial television, Shuli`s Fiance, and a children’s book. She now hosts a weekly TV culture program. Rabinyan has been awarded the Wiener Prize (1996), the Jewish Wingate Quarterly Award (1999), the Best Drama of the Year Award (1997) from the Israel Film Academy, the Prime Minister’s Prize (2001), the Literary ACUM Award (2008), the Bernstein Prize (2015) and the Publishers Association’s Platinum Prize, as well as the Steimatzky Prize for best-selling book of the year, for Borderlife (2016).

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