Julia Fermentto

Julia Fermentto has been heralded by the Israeli press as a “brave new voice” (Haaretz) and, “If not the voice of her generation, then at least one of its chroniclers.” (Prof. Eva Illouz, Hebrew University). Her debut novel, Safari, was published in Israel by Agam Books in 2011 and became a Bestseller. Her second novel By the Orange Orchard has been chosen as the 2018 “One book, One Tel Aviv” contest by the Tel Aviv municipality and Timeout magazine.​ It also won the Minister of Culture Award for Young Writers.

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Her work has been published in Israel, Germany, Poland, the UK, and the United States.

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Julia Fermentto was born in 1984. She holds a Ph.D. in Jewish American and Yiddish Literature from UC San Diego, she's also the artistic director of the Jerusalem International Writers Festival at Mishkenot Sha'ananim.

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