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Sarai Shavit

שרי שביט

Sarai Shavit is a poet, author, and literary editor. She has published two prose books and three poetry collections. Her award-winning poetry has been translated into Italian, German, English, Portuguese, and Malayalam. Among the awards she has won are the Tel Aviv Municipality Poetry Prize and The Goldberg Prize for Literature. Her book “Figures of Speech” won the Eddi-Vitz Adeline della Pergola Prize for Translated Literature for 2023, and has been translated into Italian and Portuguese. Shavit is a co-editor of the literary magazine “Moznayim” and teaches literature and creative writing at Tel Aviv University and the University of Turin.

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