A writer and editor, Moshe Sakal was born in Tel Aviv in 1976. He has published a collection of short stories, The Scenario (1997), and two novels: The Island I (Yediot Acharonot, 2001) and A Mother’s Case (2007). His poetry and poetic translations have appeared in HaAretz Literary Supplement. His critical reviews are published in the HaAretz Books Supplement. He edits translations from French for several publishing houses. A short story of his has appeared in French translation in Atelier du roman, one of the most important literary periodicals in France.
In the beginning of 2005, Sakal returned to Israel after six years’ residence in France. In the pages of OH! he has published, inter alia, a story dealing with his family history in Cairo and Damascus. He is currently completing a book entitled Have You Packed Alone?, inspired by the style exercises of the French writer Raymond Queneau, and proposes 99 separate versions of a single story, as its plot unrolls during an airport security check prior to an El Al flight.
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