Ayelet Tsabari is the acclaimed, Israeli-Canadian author of best-selling memoir, The Art of Leaving. Her debut novel, Songs for the Broken-Hearted – a sweeping, multigenerational saga of love, loss and reconnection and the complex history of Yemeni Jews – is a winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction, the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Fiction, the Association of Jewish Libraries Fiction Award and A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2024.
Ayelet is in conversation with Lee Kofman, Russian-born Israeli-Australian author of six books and editor of three anthologies. Lee is a writing teacher and mentor based in Melbourne.
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Ayelet Tsabari
Ayelet Tsabari is the author of Songs for the Brokenhearted, winner of a National Jewish Book Award for fiction and a Canadian Jewish Literary Award for fiction. Her memoir, The Art of Leaving, won a Canadian Jewish Literary Award for memoir, and an Apple Books and Kirkus Review Best Book of 2019. Her first book, The Best Place on Earth, winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.
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Dr Lee Kofman
Dr Lee Kofman is a Russian-born, Israeli-Australian author of three fiction books and two memoirs, including Imperfect (Affirm Press, 2019), which was shortlisted for Nib Literary Award, The Dangerous Bride (Melbourne University Press, 2014), and a writing and reading guide The Writer Laid Bare: Mastering emotional honesty in a writer’s art, craft & life (Ventura Press, 2022). She has also edited three anthologies of personal essays, Rebellious Daughters (Ventura Press, 2016), Split (Ventura Press, 2019), which was longlisted for ABIA awards, and co-edited Ruptured (LJLA, 2025) that features prominent Australian writers.