Batya Gur

Background

Batya Gur was born in Tel Aviv in 1947 to parents who survived the Holocaust.

Education

Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Career

Her specialty was detective fiction. She earned a master"s degree in Hebrew literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Batya lived in Greensboro, North Carolina, from 1972-1975, where she taught Hebrew and Jewish studies to elementary students at the North Carolina Hebrew Academy at Greensboro (now called B"nai Shalom Day School).

Before writing her first detective novel at the age of 39, she taught literature in high school.

Gur was also a literary critic for Haaretz newspaper. She died of cancer at the age of 57.

In 1988 she began writing a series starring the character of police detective Michael Ohayon: an educated, pensive, and intellectual detective. Five sequels ensued. The first book was adapted as a film for Israeli television

By his fundamental approach and his inner understanding of human nature, Ohayon succeeds in breaking the ring of silence and solving the murder mystery on his way to the next book

Gur"s crime novels were described as "less about the death of the body than..sustained, thoughtful explorations of the life of the mind.".

Works

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  • The Saturday Morning Murder: A Psychoanalytic Case by Batya Gur (1992-06-01)
  • The Saturday Morning Murder: A Psychoanalytic Case by Batya Gur (1992-06-03)
  • Murder on a Kibbutz: A Communal Case by Batya Gur (1994-11-01)
  • Murder on a Kibbutz: A Communal Case by Batya Gur (1994-11-03)
  • Murder Duet: A Musical Case (Michael Ohayon Series) by Batya Gur (2000-07-25)
  • Murder in Jerusalem: A Michael Ohayon Mystery (Michael Ohayon Mysteries) by Batya Gur (2006-08-01)
  • Murder Duet: A Musical Case (Michael Ohayon Series) by Batya Gur (2000-07-25)

Membership

In every book in the series Michael Ohayon enters a closed world, an isolated society, with rules of its own (for example psychoanalysts, or members of a kibbutz).