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Adi Sorek (1970) is an Israeli writer and editor who lives in Tel Aviv. She is the author of five fiction books, winner of the 2019 Levi Eshkol Prime Minister’s Award for Hebrew Authors, the 2012 Leib-Goldberg Award for Literary Works and second place of the 1999 Moses Foundation Literary Award. Her latest novel, Nathan, was nominated for the 2019 Sapir Prize.

She is also the founding and chief editor of the Vashti prose series at Resling Publishing and a doctoral student at the Department for Comparative Literature at Tel Aviv University. Her dissertation discusses the notion of cities of refuge in the Babylonian Talmud and modern Jewish literature.

She was born in Nes Ziona, Israel, and later lived in Kibbutz Alumot and Kibbutz Ein Gev. In 1979 she moved with her family to Haifa where she lived for about ten years. In 1989, her family immigrated to the United States and she remained in Tel Aviv. At the age of 27, she began studying literature at Tel Aviv University, from which she graduated with honours.

In 2004, she founded Vashti, a prose series published by Resling Publishing.

In addition to her writing in prose, Adi Sorek also writes essays on literature and other subjects. She has published stories and essays in various periodicals and anthologies such as Orot, Studio, Resling, Orienteering and Granetta.^[1]

The judges of the Prime Minister’s Award wrote: “Adi Sorek is a top-notch author and editor. In her books, she has established a unique style of writing that boldly explores the boundaries of creative expression from within and without. Her books unfold for her readers a dense tapestry of affinities and allusions to Hebrew and world literature, erecting multi-layered and polyphonic texts. With genre-defying prose, often blending into existential essayist writing, she brings to the surface questions about home, place and space. In addition, as founder and editor of the Vashti Books Series at Resling Publishing, Adi Sorek has introduced international, avant-garde authors to Israeli readers.”

Panel of Judges: Eyal Dotan, Meron Rapaport, Galit Distal Atbaryan, December 2019