Landsman, Keren
Entry updated 26 February 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1977- ) Israeli epidemiologist and author, active from before 2010, winning more than one Geffen Award over her career. She is of Equipoisal sf interest for her first novel, Lev ha-ma'agal (2018; trans Daniele Zamir as The Heart of the Circle 2019), set in a land with enough resemblances to the consensual real world for it arguably to pass as an Alternate History. In this venue, sorcerers have long comprised a Pariah Elite, persecuted by a fundamentalist sect (see Religion), resulting in a protest movement focused on civil rights. Scapegoating, as in most social dramas involving versions of Homo sapiens, is intense. [JC]
Keren Landsman
born Israel: 28 December 1977
works
- Lev ha-ma'agal (Kineret, Israel: Zemorah-Bitan, 2018) [binding unknown/]
- The Heart of the Circle (London: Angry Robot, 2019) [trans by Daniele Zamir of the above: pb/Francesca Corsini]
collections and stories
- Shama'im Shvurim ["Broken Skies"] (no place given, Israel: Sial Publishing, 2014) [coll: binding unknown/]
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