Eshkol Nevo

Eshkol Nevo is an Israeli writer.

He was born in 1971 in Jerusalem. He is the grandson of Levi Eshkol, Israel’s third prime minister, after whom he was named.

Eshkol Nevo spent his childhood traveling between Jerusalem and Detroit. He served in the army as an intelligence officer.

He studied psychology at Tel Aviv University. He teaches creative writing at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, Sapir College, and the Open University of Israel. He is the founder and owner of the largest creative writing school in Israel and is considered a mentor to many young Israeli talents.

In 2014, Nevo, together with poet Orit Gidli, founded the writing school “Home Workshops” in Jaffa, whose students have already published more than forty books with Nevo’s support and encouragement. Among the notable authors who have graduated from the school are Anat Lev-Adler, Sapir Prize laureate for first books Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Roni Brodetsky, Sari Shavit, Idan Greenberg, and others. The school teaches some of the best teacher-writers from Israel, including Raanan Shaked, Omer Barak, Roni Gelbfish, Dana Berger, and many others.

All of his novels have become bestsellers in Israel and are published in many countries around the world. He has received the Gold and Platinum Awards of the Israel Publishers Association, as well as other prestigious domestic and international literary awards.

He lives in Ra'anana, fifteen kilometers north of Tel Aviv, with his wife and three daughters.