Lavie Tidhar

Lavie Tidhar was born in 1976 in Afula

Lavie Tidhar was born on 16 November 1976 in Afula. He grew up on Kibbutz Dalia in northern Israel. From the age of 15 he traveled widely, and his travels appear in several of his works.

He lived for long periods in the United Kingdom and South Africa, and also in Laos and Vanuatu. He later settled in London. He writes in English and Hebrew, and also in Bislama.

His novels include Osama, A Man Lies Dreaming, Central Station, Unholy Land and Neom. He also wrote children's books, novellas and comics, and the Maror trilogy, published between 2022 and 2025. Central Station won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 2017, and Adama won the Deutscher Krimi Preis in 2025.

From October 2019 to August 2022 he wrote a science fiction and fantasy column for The Washington Post with Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Since 2023 he has written short animated films for director Nir Yaniv under the label Positronish.