Moshe Sakal is an acclaimed writer who was born in Tel Aviv, spent several years in Paris, and has lived in Berlin since 2019. He has been recognized by NBC, Le Monde, and Haaretz for his award-winning novels, and has contributed to publications such as Le Monde, Libération, Haaretz, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Co-founder of Altneuland Press in Berlin, Sakal's six Hebrew novels, including "The Diamond Setter" (Other Press, translated by Jessica Cohen) and "Yolanda" (in French by Stock), explore themes of border-crossing in time and space, exile, immigration, diaspora, queer life, and the impact of technology on culture. A two-time Sapir Prize nominee, Eshkol Prize winner, Fulbright Scholar, and Honorary Fellow in Writing at the University of Iowa, USA, Sakal received the Berlin Senate's 2021 Literature Grant for his forthcoming novel.
“Maybe We Can Never Go Back”: An Interview with Moshe Sakal in The Los Angeles Review of Books.
Podcast listening: The Old/New Middle East, The Tel Aviv Review.
Photo: Dalia Castel
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
For full publications in German, click on this page.
New project: “Mensch und Maschine” – A series of philosophical essays on AI, technology, and human nature, published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung throughout 2025. Read more in German here.
Le Monde: "Literature Must Approach AI as an Opportunity." Link or full PDF (French)
“Take us to see the Mona Lisa, Uncle Moshe!”: French, Libération or English , JBC
Instructions for Eating Granny Ora’s Kibbeh, Words Without Borders
De Beauvoir and Sartre on the Kibbutz, World Literature Today
Israel’s “melting pot” turns 70: This is why I call myself an Arab Jew, Salon
Sodom and Diaspora—Jewish Identity in ‘Call Me By Your Name’, IntoMore
Excerpt from MY SISTER, The Literary Review
We Have Led Others Astray, Haaretz
Even Amid Spreading Violence, Time Mostly Stands Still in Mixed Yaffo, The Forward
