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Sarit Yishai-Levi, a journalist and author, was born in Jerusalem in 1947 to a Sephardic family that has lived in the city for seven generations. She studied at the Nissan Nativ Acting Studio and later at Tel Aviv University. Before turning to journalism, Yishai-Levi acted in theater and film for several years. Later, she was a correspondent for various Israeli newspapers and magazines, including At, Monitin, HaOlam HaZeh and Hadashot; she also hosted Hebrew TV and radio programs in Los Angeles. At present, she is a senior correspondent for Olam Ha’Isha magazine and hosts TV shows on tourism and lifestyle. Yishai-Levi has published four non-fiction books. Her first novel, The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, a bestseller in Israel, received the Publishers Association's Gold and Platinum Prizes (2014) and the Steimatzky Prize for best-selling book of the year (2014). It is now being made into a feature film.
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Books Published in Hebrew
| Strauss: The Story of a Family and of an Indastry (biography), Keter, 1997 [Shtraus: Sipur Shel Mishpacha Ve-Ta'asiya] | Guesthouses: North (travel), Modan, 2006; 2010 [Tzimerim: Tzafon] | Guesthouses: South and Center (travel), Modan, 2007 [Tzimerim: Darom, Merkaz] | The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem
(novel)
, Modan, 2013 [Malkat Ha-Yofi Shel Yerushalayim] | Little Mouse Macaroni and Baloney the Pony
(children-picture bk)
, Modan, 2014 [Achbaroni Makaroni Ve-Boni Ha-Pony] | A Woman Beyond the Sea
(novel)
, Modan, 2019 [Isha Me-Ever La-Yam] | | |
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Books in Translation
Italian: Rome, Sonzogno/RCS, 2015
Turkish: Istanbul, Koton, 2015
German: Berlin, Aufbau, 2016; pback, 2017
English: New York, St. Martin's Press, 2016 Russian: Moscow, Knizhniki, forthcoming French: Paris, Charlston/Ledoc, forthcoming German: Berlin, Aufbau, forthcoming Strauss: The Story of a Family and of an Industry
English: Jerusalem, Keter, 1998
Guesthouses: North
Russian: Tel Aviv, Modan, 2010
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