Nir Ratzkovsky is an Israeli writer, translator from French and English into Hebrew, and scholar of translation and cultural studies. He is the author of the novel Beloved, Daughter and the nonfiction book Adventures of Molière in the Holy Tongue. He has translated major writers including Marcel Proust, Michel Houellebecq, Emmanuel Carrère, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir and Jonathan Littell. Nir teaches at the University of Haifa and Tel Aviv University. He is currently working on a new novel. 

His participation is made possible by Fulbright Israel.