ZERUYA SHALEV is the author of nine novels. She was born in Kibbutz Kinneret and has an MA in Biblical Studies. Her second novel, LOVE LIFE, was included in Der Spiegel’s “20 Best Novels in World Literature.” In 2002, HUSBAND AND WIFE was nominated for the French Femina prize. In 2014, THE REMAINS OF LOVE won the Prix Femina Etranger.  In 2019, she won the Jan Michalski Prize for her novel PAIN. Shalev is a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and the recipient of the 2024 S.Y. Agnon Prize for Literature. Her fiction has been translated into twenty-seven languages.