Son­dra Sil­ver­ston has trans­lat­ed the work of Israeli fic­tion writ­ers such as Etgar Keret, Ayelet Gun­dar-Goshen, Zeruya Shalev, and Savy­on Liebrecht. Her trans­la­tion of Amos Oz’s Between Friends won the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award for fic­tion in 2013. Born in the Unit­ed States, she has lived in Israel since 1970.