Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen was born in 1982 in Tel Aviv

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen was born in 1982 and grew up in Tel Aviv. She served in the IDF as a military reporter for the Air Force magazine.

She earned a bachelor's and a master's degree in psychology at Tel Aviv University. While studying, she worked as a journalist and news editor at Yedioth Ahronoth. She also studied screenwriting at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem.

Her first novel, One Night, Markovitch, came out in 2012 and won the Sapir Prize for a debut book. Her second novel, Waking Lions, followed in 2014 and won the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize, shared with Philippe Sands. Later novels include Liar and Relocation, published in English as The Wolf Hunt.

She writes scripts for film and television, including the short film Batman at the Checkpoint, which won the Berlin Today Award in 2012. She teaches at the Holon Institute of Technology and writes on culture for the BBC and other outlets. She lives in Tel Aviv with her partner Yoav Shutan and their 2 children.