Writer in Residence
The Schusterman Center hosts writers whose work contributes to a deeper understanding of questions and themes that define modern Israeli society, politics and culture.
Amichai Chasson is an Israeli poet, writer, curator, and filmmaker. He has published three poetry collections, receiving the Israeli Ministry of Culture Award for Literature, the First Lady of Israel Award for Hebrew Poetry, and the Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works. He has written and directed TV series and documentaries. Chasson holds degrees from the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School and the Mandel Institute for Leadership. He has been a research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and a member of the Israeli Film Council. He served as a speechwriter for President Rivlin and worked as a columnist and critic for Yedioth Ahronoth, and as a broadcaster for Kan. Currently, he is the artistic director of Beit Avi Chai and the chief curator of its gallery in Jerusalem. At the Schusterman Center, he will connect contemporary Hebrew poetry with modern Israeli art.
Dr. Chantal Ringuet is an award-winning Canadian author, scholar and translator. She is the author of Un pays où la terre se fragmente. Carnets de Jérusalem [Jerusalem Notebooks] (Linda Leith Publishing, 2017), a collection of essays on Israeli culture and literature. She is currently working on a book project about Modern Israeli writers (in French), and on a literary project about the involvement of the American Colony Industrial School of Jerusalem in the Palestinian lace tradition in the 1930s.
Dr. Ringuet has written collections of poems (2009 Jacques-Poirier literary award) and works on Yiddish Montreal. With Gérard Rabinovitch, she has published Les révolutions de Leonard Cohen (Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2016), which received a 2017 Canadian Jewish Literary Award. With Pierre Anctil, she has published a translation of the original biography of Marc Chagall, Eygens (Mon univers. Autobiographie, Fides, 2017). She has been a Fellow of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York, Scholar in Residence at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Writer in Residence and Literary Translator in Residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.