YANIV ICZKOVITS

YANIV ICZKOVITS is an award-winning author and screen writer. He has published five novels, including Pulse (2007), which won Haaretz’s debut novel prize; Adam and Sophie (2009), which won the Prime Minister’s Prize for Hebrew Writers; The Slaughterman’s Daughter (2015), which was awarded the Agnon Prize – in honor of Israel’s only Nobel Laureate for Literature – the first time the prize has been granted in ten years. Iczkovits won the Ramat Gan Prize for literary excellence (2016), the People of the Book Foundation Prize (2017), shortlisted for the Sapir Prize (2017), the British Wingate Prize (2021) and a finalist at the Jewish National Book Award (2022). The book is translated to 18 languages and became an international best-seller (among international publishers are Gallimard, MacLehose Press, Knop, Humanitas Fiction and more); No One Leaves Palo Alto (2020) was number #1 bestseller in Israel for a long period and was shortlisted for the Sapir Prize. Iczkovits adapted the book to a TV series for Keshet (aired in May 2024), and the show has been selected as one of the top 10 TV series at MIP TV. No One Leaves Palo Alto is now being translated to many languages. His fifth novel, The Beginning of All Things (2024) appeared in May 2024. Iczkovits has a postdoc in philosophy at Columbia University and the NSSR, and published a book based on his academic work entitled Wittgenstein’s Ethical Thought (Palgrave Macmillan 2012). He lives in Tel Aviv with his wife and 3 daughters.