Galit Dahan Carlibach (; born 1981) is an Israeli author. She has published 7 books,

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, essays and travel-literature

Biography

Dahan Carlibach was born in 1981 in the

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. She grew up there and in

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and

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. She studied

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in the Ma'aleh school in Jerusalem. Some of her work has been translated to English,

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and

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. Her short story Linber was included in the bilingual German-Hebrew collection We Don't Forget, We Go Dancing, and won first prize in the competition of the online magazine Berlin Today. Other short stories have appeared in English in Lilith (magazine) and

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Awards and Grants

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(2014) * ACUM Devora Omer Award (2014) *

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Pardes scholarship for young writers (2013-2014) * Fulbright International writing program of Iowa University, where she wrote three short stories (2016) *Shanghai writing program, 2017

Works

Novels

* ''The Locked Garden,'' Kinneret-Zmora-Bitan, 2010 * ''Ghost Town'', Booxilla (digital publisher), 2014 * ''The Hedge'', Kinneret-Zmora-Bitan ,2014 * ''Alice's Storm'', Kinneret-Zmora-Bitan, 2017 *''It's me, Iowa,'' Graff, 2018 *''Orphan's fortune'', Ahuzat Bayit, 2023

Young adult titles

*''Arpilea'' fantasy series **Book 1: ''Mystia'', Kinneret-Zmora-Bitan, 2013 **Book 2: ''The Return Of Ten Times'', Kinneret-Zmora-Bitan, 2015

References

External links

Galit Dahan-Carlibach's official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dahan-Carlibach, Galit Israeli opinion journalists Israeli children's writers Israeli women children's writers 1981 births Living people Recipients of Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works