Conversation with Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Lies and Deception (KU Leuven, Belgium)

On September 29, 2022, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen met with Roland Breeur, Elad Magomedov and Christoph Buchwald for a discussion about her novel Liar and lying in general. The meeting took place at the Institute of Philosophy in Leuven, Belgium.

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen was born in Israel in 1982. She holds an MA in Clinical Psychology from Tel Aviv University. She was a news editor on Israel’s leading newspaper and worked for the Israeli civil rights movement. Her film scripts won prizes at international festivals, including the Berlin Today Award and the New York City Short Film Festival Award. ‘One Night, Markovitch’ (2012), her first novel, won the Sapir Prize for best debut, and her novel ‘Waking Lions’ (2014) was awarded the 2017 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize. Her novels have been translated in ten languages.