# Orly Castel-Bloom

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{{Short description|Israeli author}}
{{Infobox writer
| name             = Orly Castel-Bloom
| native_name      = אורלי קסטל-בלום
| native_name_lang = he
| birth_date       = {{birth year and age|1960}}
| birth_place      = [Tel Aviv](/source/Tel_Aviv), Israel
| nationality      = Israeli
| occupation       = Author, Lecturer
| language         = Hebrew, French
| alma_mater       = [Tel Aviv University](/source/Tel_Aviv_University), Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts
| notable_works    = ''Dolly City'', ''Free Radicals'', ''Human Parts''
| awards           = Prime Minister's Award, Tel Aviv Award for Fiction
| spouse           = 
| children         = 2
| image            = Orly Castel-Bloom (2017).jpg
| caption          = Orly Castel-Bloom (2017)
}}

'''Orly Castel-Bloom''' ({{langx|he|אורלי קסטל-בלום}}; born 1960, Tel Aviv) is an Israeli [author](/source/author).

==Biography==
Orly Castel-Bloom was born in Northern [Tel Aviv](/source/Tel_Aviv) in 1960, to a family of French-speaking Egyptian Jews. Until the age of three, she had French nannies and spoke only French.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lee |first=Vered |date=2007-08-17 |title=North Tel Aviv star |url=https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/894462.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522174021/http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/north-tel-aviv-star-1.227628 |archive-date=2011-05-22}}</ref> She studied film at Tel Aviv University and theater at the [Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts](/source/Beit_Zvi) in [Ramat Gan](/source/Ramat_Gan).<ref>{{Cite web|title = Reading Orly Castel-Bloom's Dolly City {{!}} Dalkey Archive Press|url = http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/reading-orly-castel-blooms-dolly-city/|website = www.dalkeyarchive.com|accessdate = 2015-12-20}}</ref>

Castel-Bloom lives in Tel Aviv and has two children. She has lectured at the universities of [Harvard](/source/Harvard), [UCLA](/source/UCLA), [Cambridge](/source/University_Cambridge) and [Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford) and currently teaches creative writing at [Tel Aviv University](/source/Tel_Aviv_University).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Orly Castel-Bloom |url=https://www.ithl.org.il/writer/orly-castel-bloom/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=The Israeli Institute for Hebrew Literature {{!}} המכון הישראלי לספרות עברית |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Literary career==
Castel-Bloom's first collection of short stories, ''Not Far from the Center of Town'' (''Lo Rahok mi-Merkhaz ha-Ir'')'','' was published in 1987 by [Am Oved](/source/Am_Oved). She is the author of 11 books, including collections of short fiction and novels. Her 1992 [novel](/source/novel) ''Dolly City'', has been included in the [UNESCO Collection of Representative Works](/source/UNESCO_Collection_of_Representative_Works), and in 1999 she was named one of the fifty most influential women in Israel. ''Dolly City'' has been performed as a play in [Tel Aviv](/source/Tel_Aviv).

In ''Free Radicals (Radikalim Hofshiyim)'' published in 2000, Castel-Bloom stopped writing in the first-person. In ''Human Parts (Halakim Enoshiyim)'' published in 2002, she was the first Israeli novelist to address the subject of Palestinian [suicide bombings](/source/suicide_bombings). Her anthology of short stories ''You Don't Argue with Rice'' (stories from 1987 to 2004), was published in 2004. Castel-Bloom has won the Prime Minister's award twice, the Tel Aviv award for fiction and was nominated for the [Sapir Prize for Literature](/source/Sapir_Prize_for_Literature).

Israeli literary critic [Gershon Shaked](/source/Gershon_Shaked) called her a [postmodern](/source/Postmodern_literature) writer who "communicates the despair of a generation which no longer even dreams the dreams of Zionist history."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Shaked |first=Gershon |title=Towards the Nineteen-Nineties A Generation without Dreams |url=http://www.ithl.org.il/interview2.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224221620/http://www.ithl.org.il/interview2.html |archive-date=2012-02-24}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==

=== Novels ===

* ''Heykan ʾaniy nimṣeʾt'' (1990). ''Where I Am''
* ''Doliy siyṭiy'' (1992). ''Dolly City'', trans. Dalya Bilu (Loki Books, 1997; Dalkey Archive, 2010)
* ''HaMiynah Liyzah'' (1995). ''Mina Lisa''
* ''Ha-Sefer he-hadash'' (1998). ''Taking the Trend''
* ''Ḥalaqiym ʾenwṣiyyim'' (2002). ''Human Parts'', trans. Dalya Bilu (Godine, 2003)
* ''Teqsṭiyl'' (2006). ''Textile'', trans. Dalya Bilu (The Feminist Press, 2013)
* ''HaRoman HaMistri'' (2015). ''An Egyptian Novel'', trans. Todd Hasak-Lowy (Dalkey Archive, 2017)

=== Short story collections ===

* ''Lo Rahok mi-Merkhaz ha-Ir'' (1987). ''Not Far from the Center of Town''
* ''Sevivah 'oyenet'' (1989). ''Hostile Surroundings''
* ''Sipurim bilti-retsoniyim'' (1993). ''Unbidden Stories''
* ''Radikalem hofshi'im'' (2000). ''Free Radicals''
* ''Im orez lo mitvakchim'' (2004). ''You Don't Argue with Rice''

==Awards and honors==
Castel-Bloom won the [Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works](/source/Prime_Minister's_Prize_for_Hebrew_Literary_Works) in both 2001 and 2011, and the prestigious [Sapir Prize for Literature](/source/Sapir_Prize_for_Literature) for ''An Egyptian Novel'' in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-03-04 |title=Orly Castel-Bloom Scoops Always Controversial Sapir Prize |url=https://forward.com/culture/335139/orly-castel-bloom-scoops-always-controversial-sapir-prize/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=The Forward |language=en}}</ref>

==See also==
*[Israeli literature](/source/Israeli_literature)
*[Women of Israel](/source/Women_of_Israel)

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.ithl.org.il/page_13310 Orly Castel-Bloom bio] via ithl.org
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