Shani Boianjiu
Shani Boianjiu was born in Jersualem in 1987. She served in the Israeli Defense Forces for two years. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Vice magazine and Zoetrope: All Story. Shani is the youngest recipient ever of the National Book Foundation’s 5 under 35, and The People of Forever are Not Afraid is her first novel. She lives in Israel.
Articles by Shani Boianjiu
The War of Narratives
When I first started writing, I loved reading advice for writers from my favorite authors. Yet there was one common ...
Writing in a Foreign Language
I was born and raised in Israel, and my novel The People of Forever Are Not Afraid takes place in Israel. ...
The Book of Jonah
The characters in my novel, The People of Forever Are Not Afraid , are Israeli. Because of that, my writing ...