אורלי קסטל-בלום
Born 1960 · Israel
Sapir 2023 · Shortlist
Biotop
Title translated by AI:“Biotope”
Orly Castel-Bloom · 62 when first published
Novel · 233 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:A Francophile failure, let go from his university teaching job, shuts himself up in his Tel Aviv flat in the middle of an endless traffic jam, until he inherits a house in Normandy.
Sapir 2015 · Winner
הרומאן המצרי · Ha-roman ha-Mitsri
Orly Castel-Bloom · 55 when first published
Novel · 180 pages · Family, Historical
AI-generated summary:A Jewish family whose Egyptian roots reach back centuries comes to Israel in the 1950s with a group of young leftists, who are taken in by a kibbutz and soon thrown out. Their saga continues through the generations, half history, half invention.
Sapir 2011 · Shortlist
Haye horef
Title translated by AI:“Winter Life”
Orly Castel-Bloom · 50 when first published
Short stories · 174 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:Six stories about people knocked off balance by a journey or a break from routine, from a Jewish divorcé running a counterfeit-jeans factory in Cairo to an Israeli researcher snowbound in a remote American town.
Sapir 2003 · Shortlist
חלקים אנושיים · Halakim enoshiyim
Orly Castel-Bloom · 42 when first published
Novel · 249 pages
AI-generated summary:Six Israelis of different backgrounds and classes, with their friends and children, try to get through a winter of unprecedented storms after years of drought, while a deadly epidemic called the Saudi flu spreads.