Esty G. Hayim is the author of four novels, a short story collection and a
play. She studied theater at Tel Aviv University and teaches creative
writing at Kibbutzim College of Education and in Hanegev University. Her
latest novel, Corner People, was published to wide critical
acclaim and awarded the 2014 Brenner Prize. She received the Israeli Prime
Minister's Levi Eshkol Literary Award in 2015 and in 2002. She also won the
Keren Rabinovich Translation Award in 2016. The novel Corner People was translated into Italian and published in Italy
in 1917 by Stampa Alternativa publishing house. In October 2018 it won the
second prize for the Adewi-Wizzo literary prize in Italy. The novel is
going to be published in French and other languages this year. Hayim, whose
short stories have appeared in anthologies worldwide, is also a literary
reviewer for Ha'aretz and has acted with the Cameri Theatre, a leading
Israeli repertory theater, in Hanoch Levin's plays and others.
