Dolly City

Orly Castel-Bloom

1992

After that I took a rest from medicine for a while. I couldn’t take it any more; my doubtful diagnoses were coming out of my ears. If I’d been a doctor with a clinic and visiting cards and white coats, maybe I could have carried on, but this hand-to-mouth medicine was killing me as well as my patients. Instead I found a job in the cemetery as an…

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Orly Castel-Bloom

b. 1960

Novelist and children’s writer Orly Castel-Bloom was born in Tel Aviv. Her book, Dolly City, was published in 1992; at UNESCO’s initiative, it was translated into English and distributed internationally. Castel-Bloom was awarded the Alterman Prize (1993), the Prime Minister’s Prize (1994, 2001), the French WIZO Prize (2005), and the Leah Goldberg Prize (2007).

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