Nava Semel

Nava Semel was born in Tel Aviv in 1954. She received the American National Jewish Book Award for her children’s book Becoming Gershona (1990), the Mediterranean Women Writers Award (1994), and the Israeli Prime Minister’s Prize (1996). In 2005 she was a co-recipient of the Rozenblum Prize for and an opera adapted from her novel, And the Rat Laughs [Tzchok Shel Achbarosh. Yedioth Ahronoth, 2001]. She and director Oshra Schwartz are currently completing a documentary based on IsraIsland.