Yaniv Iczkovits, born in 1975, has published five novels and one novella, including THE SLAUGHTERMAN’S DAUGHTER, translated into more than twenty languages. Iczkovits has been awarded The Agnon Prize – in honor of Israel’s only Nobel Laureate for Literature, the Ramat Gan Prize for literary excellence, the People of the Book Foundation Prize, The UK Wingate Prize, WIZO Prize (France) and was shortlisted for the Sapir Prize. Iczkovits has a postdoc in philosophy, taught at Columbia University, and published a book based on his academic work entitled "Wittgenstein’s Ethical Thought" (Palgrave Macmillan). He lives in Tel Aviv with his wife and two daughters.