Hamutal Bar-Yosef

Hamutal Bar-Yosef is a well-known Israeli writer, poet, translator and scholar. She was born in a kibbutz. When she was over 40, she wrote her PhD and became a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University. She published 8 scholarly books and 16 books of poetry, winning over 10 major prizes for her poetry. Her poems were translated and published in various languages, including two collections in English: Night, Morning (2017) and The Ladder (2013).

Her collection of stories, Music, won the ASI (Association of Israeli Writers) prize (translated into English as The Wall, 2019). She translated poetry and prose fiction from English, French, Russian and Yiddish. Her prize-winning historical novel The Wealthy has been translated into English (2022) and has received many reviews.