Tamar Weiss Gabbay is an author from Jerusalem. She writes for both adults and children. Winner of the Brenner Literary Award for her Novel The Weather Woman and the Devorah Omer Award for her children’s book Tali Under the Table.
 

She leads various literary-social projects, such as The Israeli Women Writers’ Forum, The Street Libraries in Jerusalem, Two: A Bilingual Project for Arabic and Hebrew Contemporary Literature, and others. She is an editor at the literary journal of the Israeli National Library.  

"The Weather Woman"

received the prestigious Brenner Literary Award, 2022

"A literary event"
Netta Ahituv, Haaretz

"An incredibly original and creative storyteller...
The weather woman is an icon in a world of howling winds and rushing waters"
Ran Ben Nun, Yedioth Ahronoth

News

The Weather Women - now in Italian

The Kidstory - a day in a life of children throughout 1.5 million years of history is published this spring in Hebrew by Kinneret-Zmora and in German by Fischer Verlag

The book "Just an Empty Field" was nominated for the Sasa Setton book award

New stories at Granta magazine and in The The Short Story Project

Tali Under The Table won the Minister of Culture Award for children's book

The Weather Woman won the Brenner Award

The story The Weather Woman, translated into English by Jessica Cohen (winner of the Booker prize), was published in the anthology Elemental by Two Lines Press (2021).

Tamar Weiss-Gabbay was hosted by Jerusalism, for a talk about her writing

The story Blind Spot, translated by Prof. Miriam Shlesinger, was published in The London Reader​

Dog Park was recently published in the audio anthology "Ten Minutes Top" (Hebrew only)​

PJ Library in the US produced a podcast of the children's book Tali Under the Table

The short story Our End was published on Alaxson magazine