Ayelet Tsabari is an acclaimed Israeli-Canadian writer whose works explore themes of Yemini identity, culture, and migration. She is the author of Songs for the Brokenhearted, winner of a National Jewish Book Award for Fiction, The Canadian Jewish Literary Award for fiction, the Association of Jewish Libraries Fiction Award, and A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2024.
Her first book, the story collection The Best Place on Earth, won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish Fiction. The book was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and was nominated for The Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award.
This event is sponsored by Roxanne Pappenheimer/Mark Horenstein and Denver University of Jewish Studies.
