I’ve
been writing ever since I was a boy. Creative writing was my favorite subject
in school, and the feedback from my teachers encouraged me. I wanted to follow
in my father’s footsteps—he was a journalist at the local newspaper—but I was
always drawn to writing fiction.
My
first book was a collection of short stories set in Israel, where I had moved
with my family at the age of 15. The stories were based on my experiences
living on a kibbutz, a collective farming community in Israel’s southern
desert. Life on the kibbutz was evolving, from socialist idealism to modern
capitalism, and I strived to show these changes in my fiction.
I
wrote two suspense novels set in Bulgaria, but I’ve gravitated to the craft of
writing short stories. I enjoy the format of introducing characters and plots
in a limited number of words. In many ways, this is more challenging than
writing a novel.
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