Tamar Merin

Tamar Merin

Merin is novelist, literary scholar, and critic. Her critically acclaimed book Children (2015) has earned her the Minister of Culture Prize for Emerging Writers, and the Goldberg Foundation Prize. Her short stories have been published in the journals Ho! and the New Keshet Magazine, among others. She is a regular contributor to Haaretz’ Culture and Literature and Books supplements, and received the 2014 Bernstein Prize for Literary Criticism. She holds a PhD in Hebrew literature from Tel Aviv University, serves as a lecturer in Hebrew literature at the Kibbutzim College, and is a research fellow in the Gender Program of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She has taught literature at Tel Aviv University and was a visiting lecturer in Hebrew and Israeli literature at Northwestern University, Illinois. Her English language nonfiction book, which explores the rise of Israeli women’s prose, will be published later this year.