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Mira Magen

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Mira Magen was born in Kfar Saba, Israel, in 1950 to an Orthodox family. She studied psychology and sociology before turning to nursing. She worked as a nurse at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem and started publishing short stories in the early 1990s. Magen has published a number of bestselling novels and a book of short stories. She has been awarded the Olschwung Foundation Award (1988), the Prime Minister’s Prize (2005) and the Book Publishers Association’s Gold Book Prize five times (2001; 2004; 2005; 2011; 2012).

Photo by: Dan Porges

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  • Michaela

    [Michaela]
    Fiction
    Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan 2018

  • The Carpenter’s Sister

    [Achoto Shel Ha-Nagar]
    Fiction
    Zmora-Bitan 2015

  • The Bluest Eyes

    [Eynayim Kchulot Miday]
    Fiction
    Zmora-Bitan 2012

  • Vodka and Bread

    [Vodka Ve-Lechem]
    Fiction
    Zmora-Bitan 2010

  • Time Will Tell

    [Yamim Yagidu, Anna]
    Fiction
    Keter 2008

  • The Glass Butterfly

    [Parparim Be-Geshem]
    Fiction
    Keter 2005

  • Her Angels Have All Fallen Asleep

    [Malacheia Nirdemu Kulam]
    Fiction
    Keter 2003

  • Brother and Sister

    [Ach Ve-Achot]
    Fiction Novella
    Keter 2000

  • Love, After All

    [Be-Shochvi U Be-Kumi, Isha]
    Fiction
    Keter 2000

  • Do Not Strike the Wall

    [Al Takeh Ba-Kir]
    Fiction
    Hakibbutz Hameuchad 1997

  • Well Buttoned-Up

    [Kaftorim Rechusim Heitev]
    Fiction
    Keter 1994