Arie Glasner

Arie Glasner was born in 1973

Glasner was born on August 22, 1973, the eldest of 5 children in a religious Zionist family. He grew up in the moshav Kfar HaRoeh. In 1982 his family lived for half a year near Yamit as part of the struggle against the withdrawal from Sinai.

He studied at religious schools in Kfar HaRoeh and at the Beit El yeshiva, where he discovered literature, then moved to the Or Etzion yeshiva. He later left religious life. He studied at Tel Aviv University in the Adi Lautman program and earned a master's degree in Hebrew literature with a thesis on Yosef Haim Brenner.

From 2001 to 2003 he was a research fellow at the Shalem Center. From 2007 to 2011 he wrote a doctorate on Israeli literary criticism at Bar-Ilan University.

His first novel appeared in 2004 and dealt with a young man leaving religion. From 2005 to 2011 he was the literary critic of Maariv, and from 2011 he wrote a weekly column for Yedioth Ahronoth. In 2010 the Zmora Bitan publishing house stopped sending books to Maariv over his reviews, and the paper backed him.

His second novel, a memoir-style work, appeared in 2017. Since 2019 he has written a column of essays in the quarterly HaShiloach.