Encounters with pain and sorrow made me want to write. When… - Zeruya Shalev

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Encounters with pain and sorrow made me want to write. When I was 6, I was already writing sad poems about cats and dogs that had been killed and soldiers that were dying in war. It’s in my DNA.

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Zeruya Shalev (Hebrew: צרויה שלו, born 13 May 1959) is a bestselling author who lives in Israel.

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