Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Born	1982 Israel
Occupation(s)	Clinical psychologist, novelist, screenwriter, journalist, news editor, academic
Known for	Novels "One Night, Markovitch", "Waking Lions"; clinical psychology; screenplay "Batman at the Checkpoint"

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen (Hebrew: איילת גונדר-גושן; born 1982) is an Israeli clinical psychologist and novelist.

Life

Gundar-Goshen was born in Israel and earned a master's degree in psychology from Tel Aviv University. While pursuing her academic studies, she gained experience as a journalist and news editor at Yedioth Ahronoth. Additionally, she completed screenplay studies at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School located in Jerusalem. As a practicing clinical psychologist, she holds teaching positions at both Tel Aviv University and the Holon Institute of Technology. In 2018, she served as a visiting author at San Francisco State University and is presently engaged as a visiting artist at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Writing

In addition to her psychological career, Gundar-Goshen crafts screenplays for Israeli television and film. Her short screenplay Batman at the Checkpoint received the Berlin Today Award for best short film in 2012 during the Berlinale Talent Campus.

Her first novel, One Night, Markovitch (2012), was honored with the Sapir Prize for debut novels in 2013. This work has been translated into thirteen languages and earned the Italian Adei-Wizo Prize in 2016, an award she shared with Etgar Keret, as well as the French Adei-Wizo Prize in 2017. The novel was also longlisted for Italy's Sinbad Prize and nominated for the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle.

The follow-up novel, Waking Lions (2014), similarly translated into thirteen languages, was awarded the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize in 2017 alongside Philippe Sands. It was recognized as an editors' choice by The New York Times Book Review, featured on The Wall Street Journal's list of "Best Summer Reads", and selected by Mariella Frostrup as one of her Books of the Year 2016 in the Observer.

Gundar-Goshen regularly contributes to BBC's Cultural Frontline and occasionally writes articles for publications such as the Financial Times, Time, and the Telegraph.

Novels

• • • One Night, Markovitch; published by Pushkin Press, London, 2015; paperback edition also released in 2015; Toronto edition by Anansi, 2015.
  • • Waking Lions; Pushkin Press, London, 2016; paperback edition in 2016; New York edition by Little, Brown.
  • • Liar, released in 2017.
  • • The Wolf Hunt, published in 2021 by Little, Brown, New York.

External links

• Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, WorldCat database
• Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature