![]() ![]() ![]() Ravel, whose books range from Ten Thousand Lovers and Look for Me to A Wall of Light and The Last Rain, was clearly something of a late bloomer. In retrospect, she mused without the slightest pretension, she is amazed she grasped this fundamental principle at such a young age, before she had even read a single book of adult fiction or had been encouraged to follow her writerly dreams. That need to delve into our hidden lives was tied to my understanding of what a writer needs to be able to write.” ![]() ”I knew that the main requirement was an acquaintance with what lies beneath the surface of things. “I felt instinctively, when I was six or seven, that I would spend my life trying to write stories,” said Ravel, a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Giller Prize and the recipient of the Hugh MacLennan Prize and the Canadian Jewish Book Award. But years before, as a girl growing up on a newly established kibbutz in northern Israel, she knew she would be a writer one day. Edeet Ravel’s first novel was published when she was in her early 40s. ![]()
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