S. K. Azoulay

S. K. Azoulay was born in 1979 in Tel Aviv

Shay K. Azoulay was born in Tel Aviv on December 24, 1979. He grew up in Israel and in New York. He attended Yehud Comprehensive High School.

He served in the army in the Shimshon Battalion. He studied English literature and communications at Tel Aviv University, and his first story appeared in the paper 77 in 2004. He then earned a master's degree in creative writing at the City College of New York, where he wrote his first novel, Salah the Mute, in English.

In New York he translated Hanoch Levin's play The Sufferings of Job, staged there in 2006. His satirical play The Platoon won first place at the Zav Kriah festival in 2012 and ran at Tzavtah Theater in 2014 and 2015. It drew good reviews and also controversy over its portrayal of the IDF.

His novel Lazaretto, a dystopia set in Tel Aviv, came out in 2019, and his novel Through No Wish of My Own followed in 2026. A story of his won second prize in the 2016 Zoetrope: All-Story contest. He also translates from Hebrew to English and writes book reviews for The New York Times.