Background
Zeruya Shalev was born on Kibbutz Kinneret.
Zeruya Shalev was born on Kibbutz Kinneret.
She has an Master of Arts in Bible studies and works as a literary editor at Keshet publishing house. lieutenant took her four months to recover from her injuries. Shalev is married to Ayal Megged, son of Aharon Megged.
Her cousin is the author Meir Shalev.
They have been translated into 21 languages and were bestsellers in several countries. The novel Love Life was ranked by the German newspaper Der Spiegel among the twenty best novels of the last forty years, alongside works of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth.
Love Life has also been adapted for the screen as Love Life (German title Liebesleben), a joint 2007 German/Israeli film directed by Maria Schrader. In 2012, Shalev was awarded the Welt Literaturpreis by the German newspaper Die Welt for her body of work, acclaiming her great magical language.