Nava Macmel-Atir

Nava Macmel-Atir was born in 1964 in Ramat Gan

Nava Macmel-Atir was born in Ramat Gan on 27 August 1964. She attended school in Bnei Brak and then Blich High School. She earned a bachelor's degree in literature, film and television.

She served in the IDF as a placement officer.

In her twenties she wrote poems for a weekly children's column in Yedioth Ahronoth. In 1990 the paper's weekend supplement ran a story about her poem written in memory of Micha Granit, who fell in the Yom Kippur War. For more than a decade, until 2005, she taught literature at Blich High School.

Her children's book Adi's Jewel tells the true story of a Holocaust survivor and was adapted into a play. King of the Mountain, Right of Passage and other books were also staged, and Right of Passage won the Ze'ev Prize. She acts in stage versions of some of her books.

Her adult novel Ot me-Avshalom came out in 2009 and became a bestseller, later receiving the Diamond Book Prize for 100,000 copies sold. Her historical novel about the poet Rachel appeared in 2017. She is married to Eli Macmel, a police officer, and they have 3 children.