Tamar Raphael

Disciplines: Literature – fiction
Disciplines: Literature – fiction
Based in Berlin, GERMANY
Residencies: 2025
Portrait by: Joanna Eldredge Morrissey

Tamar Raphael is an Israeli writer based in Berlin. Her debut novel, There Were Two with Nothing to Do (2024), received rave reviews and an honorable mention from the Brener Award for debut fiction. Her poetry collection, Receding Songs (2021), received the Ministry of Culture Award for Young Poets and her poems and short stories have appeared in a range of literary magazines and journals.

While at MacDowell, Raphael, Berlin worked on the second draft of her second Hebrew novel, Among the Weaklings, while simultaneously beginning its English translation and rewriting it in the process, turning it into a novel written bilingually. An excerpt will soon appear in The Diasporist in both English and German.

Studios

Calderwood

Tamar Raphael worked in the Calderwood studio.

In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Stanford Calderwood, a newspaperman in his youth who later went on to establish an investment firm, was a lover of nonfiction and was a member of MacDowell’s board of directors…

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