Michal Sapir

Michal Sapir, born in New York in 1966, is a writer, translator and musician. She has a PhD in comparative literature from New York University. In 2011 she published a biography of her grandfather, the legendary Israeli finance minister Pinchas Sapir. Among her notable translations: Georges Didi-Huberman’s Survivance des lucioles, Zygmunt Bauman’s Culture in a Liquid Modern World, Prof. Yigal Schwartz’s The Zionist Paradox: Hebrew Literature and Israeli Identity. Michal is also the songwriter, singer and guitarist in the band Afor Gashum. The Modern Dance is her first novel.