Join us for a conversation with Israeli-Canadian author Ayelet Tsabari, whose writing explores the slipperiness of identity, the struggles of writing in a new language, and the search for belonging.
Ayelet Tsabari was born in Israel to a large family of Yemeni descent. She is the author of The Art of Leaving, winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for memoir, finalist for the Writer’s Trust Hilary Weston Prize, and an Apple Books and Kirkus Review Best Book of 2019. Her first book, The Best Place on Earth, won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, and was long listed to the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. The book was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a Kirkus Review Best Book of 2016, and has been published internationally. She’s the co-editor of the anthology Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language. Her most recent book Songs for the Brokenhearted (2024) has won the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction and the Association of Jewish Libraries' Fiction Award. Ayelet has taught creative writing at Guelph MFA in Creative Writing, The University of King’s College MFA, Tel Aviv University, and at Bar Ilan University.
Co-Sponsored by the Melton Center for Jewish Studies, the Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, the Department of English, and the Middle East Studies Center
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