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The novelist Moshe Sakal was born in Israel in 1976 into a Sephardic family from Egypt and Syria.
In November 2011, Sakal’s novel Yolanda was shortlisted for the Sapir Prize, the Israeli Booker. Sakal was awarded the Eshkol prize for his work, as well as a Fulbright scholarship to attend the Iowa Writing Program(IWP) in the University of Iowa , USA. Yolanda was published in France in 2012 by Stock publishing house.
Fluent in three languages, Moshe Sakal studied and worked in France between 2000 and 2006. He currently heads the translation unit of the Literary Division of the Israel Center for Books and Libraries and writes book reviews and articles for Haaretz daily newspaper. Previous to his novel Yolanda (Keter publishing house, Israel, feb. 2011), Sakal published two novels and a volume of short stories.