Lily Perry

Lily Perry was born in 1953 in Hadera

Lily Perry was born in Hadera in 1953, the first child of parents born in Romania. Her family moved around the country in search of steady work and settled in Netanya, where she grew up from age 9.

She served in the IDF as a youth guide at Sde Boker. She earned a BA in general and Jewish philosophy at Tel Aviv University.

In 1973 she began working as a journalist and editor at HaOlam HaZeh, Al HaMishmar and Yedioth Ahronoth. From 1978 to 1996 she edited humanities and social science books at the Open University of Israel, and she has worked as a book editor since 1978. In 2012 she co-founded Afik Books with Dan Miron and Iftach Alony, and in 2013 she founded Totem Books.

She has published 7 books, 6 of them novels. Her novel Golem in the Circle was made into a film in 1993 and staged as a one-woman play. She lives in Tel Aviv, is remarried and has 2 sons.