Yael Globerman | |
Native Name: | יעל גלוברמן |
Native Name Lang: | he |
Birth Date: | 1954 |
Birth Place: | Tel Aviv, Israel |
Nationality: | Israeli |
Occupation: | Poet, writer, translator, book editor, educator |
Notableworks: | Shaking the Tree, Alibi, Same River Twice, Map of the Peninsula |
Spouse: | Jack Adelist (divorced) |
Children: | 2 |
Awards: | ACUM Prize (2000, 2018), Mifal HaPayis Prize (2002), Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works (2020) |
Yael Globerman (Hebrew: יעל גלוברמן; born 1954) is an Israeli poet, writer, translator, book editor, and educator in literature.[1]
She was born in Tel Aviv to emigrants from Poland to Israel after the Holocaust. She graduated from the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, she enlisted in the Nahal. During that time she began publishing poems and stories in periodicals. After military service she studied painting and sculpture at the Free University (unrecognized), The Hague, and graduated from, Tel Aviv University. Since the 1980s she lived for about 10 years in the United States with actor Jack Adelist and they had two children. They divorced and in 1992 she returned to Israel.[2] [3]