Judith Katzir

Judith Katzir (Hebrew: יהודית קציר; born 1963) is an Israeli writer of novels, short stories, and children's books in Hebrew. Her works have been translated into multiple languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, Estonian, German, Italian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, and Spanish. Katzir is known for her rich language, lyrical yet matter-of-fact tone, and distinct narrative style, often featuring a female second-person narrator. Her writing employs varied sentence structures, using both long and short sentences to reflect the rhythm of events. Critics have identified her as one of the first Israeli women novelists to break into what had been, until the 1980s, a male-dominated field.