House Arrest
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Noa Yedlin is an Israeli author, the recipient of the Sapir Prize (the Israeli Man Booker) and the Prime Minister's Literature Award, and author of the bestselling House Arrest, Stockholm, People Like Us and The Wrong Book. Yedlin was named by Haaretz Magazine one of “66 Israeli Women You Should Know.”
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On screen and on stage.
Yedlin is the creator of a two-season TV series based on her bestselling novel Stockholm, winner of the Israeli Best Mini-Series TV Award. A German remake — You Don't Die Among Friends — won Best Scripted Format at the 2021 International Format Awards and Best European Series at La Rochelle Festival De La Fiction 2021. The series has also been remade by SVT Sweden.
Her novel People Like Us is currently being developed into a series in Israel, and a stage adaptation of House Arrest is playing at Beit Lessin Theater in Tel Aviv.
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Israel Novelist Noa Yedlin's Essay on the Hamas War
A meditation on living and writing in Israel through the war — on what fiction is for, and what it can no longer pretend to do.
Stockholm's Exploration of Mortality
Yedlin uses the absurd premise of a friend group staging a fake funeral to ask what we owe each other — and what we owe ourselves — in the face of death.