About the Night

About Anat Talshir

Anat Talshir has been one of Israels most distinguished investigative journalists for over thirty years. She has hosted a television show on current affairs and taught creative writing at the College of Management Academic Studies. Talshir has written and produced several documentaries including the award-winning program Israels Next War? In 2002 she was awarded the Nahum Sokolov Prize for best journalism (the Israeli Pulitzer). Talshir is currently working on her second novel. Evan Fallenberg is a US-born writer and translator living in Israel since 1985. He is the author of the novels Light Fell (2008) When We Danced on Water (2011) and The Parting Gift (2018) and has translated novels plays short stories librettos and screenplays by leading Israeli authors. Fallenberg has won the American Library Associations Barbara Gittings Stonewall Book Award as well as the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. He has been short-listed for the PEN Translation Prize and the Times Literary Supplement Risa Domb/Porjes Prize for translation of Hebrew literature. Fallenberg teaches at Bar-Ilan University and City University of Hong Kong and serves as an advisor to several literary prizes including the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.