Moshe Sakal lives in Berlin, Ger­many. He is a nov­el­ist acclaimed by NBC, Le Monde and Haaretz, and has pub­lished six nov­els in Hebrew. His nov­el The Dia­mond Set­ter (Oth­er Press, NYC 2018) has been trans­lat­ed into Eng­lish by Jes­si­ca Cohen, win­ner of the Man Book­er Prize. His nov­el Yolan­da (Stock, 2012) has been trans­lat­ed into French by Valérie Zenat­ti. Anne Birken­hauer has trans­lat­ed excerpts from his forth­com­ing nov­el into German.

Sakal’s var­i­ous pub­li­ca­tions include the Ger­man lit­er­ary mag­a­zine Sinn und Form and the Ger­man news­pa­per Frank­furter All­ge­meine Zeitung (FAZ).

Sakal’s writ­ing delves into diverse themes such as exile, immi­gra­tion, dias­po­ra, bor­der cross­ing, queer life and inter­gen­er­a­tional rela­tion­ships. His work has earned him two nom­i­na­tions for the pres­ti­gious Sapir Prize and the Eshkol Prize for his artis­tic con­tri­bu­tions. Sakal was also award­ed a Ful­bright Schol­ar­ship to par­tic­i­pate in the Inter­na­tion­al Writ­ing Pro­gram at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Iowa, where he was named an Hon­orary Fel­low in Writing.

In 2021, Sakal was award­ed the Lit­er­a­ture grant of the Berlin Sen­ate Depart­ment for Cul­ture and Europe in sup­port of his forth­com­ing novel.