Merav Halperin

Merav Halperin was born in Haifa in 1960 and lives in Tel Aviv. A graduate of Tel Aviv University, majoring in history, she has worked as an editor at the Israel Defense Forces radio station, then as editor-in-chief of the Israel Air Force magazine. Today she works as an editor of biographies and other non-fiction.

Halpein won the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize for Military Literature, for G-Suit, written with Aharon Lapidot (1988). Her novel, My Husband’s Not Home, received the Steimatzky Prize for best-selling debut novel of the year (2015) and the Publishers Association’s Gold Prize (2016).

Photo by: Dan Porges