Netalie Gvirtz is an author based in Tel Aviv and a literary editor at Am Oved publishing house. She has published three novels and eight books for children and young adults.

Awards and scholarships:

2025: Recipient of the Schloss Wiepersdorf Fellowship, awarded by the Ministry for Science, Research and Culture of Brandenburg, Germany, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut

2022: "The Volunteer" was longlisted for the Sapir Prize for Literature

2017: Winner of the Minister of Culture Award in the field of Hebrew literature for the book "Yolanda de Meow".