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Dvora Waysman is an Australian-Israeli author.

Biography

Dorothy Opas (later Dvora Waysman) was born in Melbourne, Victoria. She made aliyah to Israel in 1971 with her husband and four children.[1] The family settled in Jerusalem.

Her writings are syndicated worldwide in over 20 publications.[2] Waysman is a contributor to The Jewish Press. Her topics include travel-related, family life experiences and Jewish holidays. Examples from her knowledge of Jewish History are often part of what she writes.[3] Waysman has taught creative writing and journalism for three decades.[4]

Waysman's novel The Pomegranate Pendant was made into a movie in 2009.[5] It premiered at the Jerusalem Film Festival in 2012.[6]

Awards and recognition

Waysman was the 1981 [7] recipient of the "For Jerusalem" citation for her fiction, poems and features about the city of Jerusalem, and has won the Seeff Award for Best Foreign Correspondent in 1988.[8] In 2014, the movie based on her book, The Golden Pomegranate, won the Shabazi Prize for Literature and Art.[6]

Published works

Books

Short stories

References

  1. ^ Books, Used, New, and Out of Print Books - We Buy and Sell - Powell's. "Esther: A Jerusalem Love Story by Dvora Waysman". www.powells.com.((cite web)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 12 October 2008. Retrieved 5 August 2009.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ ex. Her Shabbat In Shiloh, about visiting a married daughter who, with eight children, has lived there for the past 16 years, weaves in Joshua's conquest, Tu B'Av, a battle in the 11th century BCE against the Philistines, and the 1970s.
  4. ^ "Pitspopany Press - Dvora Waysman (Author)". Archived from the original on 25 July 2008. Retrieved 5 August 2009.
  5. ^ The Jewish Press, 7 August 2009, p. 4
  6. ^ a b "Israel News - The Jerusalem post". www.jpost.com.
  7. ^ "Yahoo! Groups". groups.yahoo.com. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012.
  8. ^ "Mother's Day". Archived from the original on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2009.
  9. ^ It's a picture book. Schmidt's bio can be found at http://hachai.com/bios.html Archived 1 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
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