Meir Shalev

Meir Shalev was born in 1948 in the moshav of Nahalal, the son of the poet Yitzhak Shalev, and grew up in Jerusalem. He served in the Golani Brigade, fought in the Six-Day War and was wounded shortly afterwards. He worked in television, where he hosted a Friday evening programme, and kept a weekly column in Yedioth Ahronoth. Author of novels, essays on the Bible and children's books, translated into more than twenty languages, he received the Brenner Prize and died in 2023.

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• NovelThe Blue Mountainרומן רוסיMeir Shalev · 1988Literature