Sunday, November 10, 2024 | 1–2:15pm
ADMISSION: Free with Museum admission
How is award-winning novelist Noa Yedlin grappling with portrayals of Israeli society after October 7? How can a society undergoing so much trauma and change be depicted in literature? Yedlin, a best-selling and award-winning Israeli author, offers insights into her heartfelt perspective on being an Israeli writer today, including exploring how the tragedies on and following October 7 affect what fiction should reflect back at society, the everyday lives of Israeli people, the changing role of humor in literature, and art’s capacity to help us find meaning and understanding amidst current events.
Yedlin will be in conversation with The CJM's Director of Public Programs, Gravity Goldberg.
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Noa Yedlin is an Israeli author, the recipient of the Sapir Prize (the Israeli Man Booker) and the Prime Minister's Literature Award, and is the author of the bestselling works House Arrest, Stockholm, People Like Us, and The Wrong Book. Yedlin was named by Haaretz Magazine one of "66 Israeli Women You Should Know."
Yedlin is also the creator of a two-season TV series based on her bestselling novel Stockholm (the Israeli Best Mini-Series TV Award). A German remake of the series (You Don't Die Among Friends) won Best Scripted Format at 2021 International Format Awards and Best European Series at La Rochelle Festival De La Fiction 2021. The series is now being re-made by SVT Sweden (broadcast: Christmas 2022). Her bestselling novel People Like Us is currently being developed into a series in Israel. A stage adaption of House Arrest is now playing at Beit Lessin Theater in Tel Aviv.
Yedlin is considered one of Israel's top writers. Her novels—widely known for their dark and subtle humor—sketch with biting precision the complex relationships both within the family and outside of it, while capturing and deconstructing the spirit of the times. Yedlin deals with global phenomena that infiltrate the personal realm and shape our everyday lives—the rise and fall of social elites, shifts in the balance of power and the never-ending battle between individualism and conformism.
Major support for Public Programs is generously provided by Grants for the Arts and Taube Philanthropies