Today, we have the distinct pleasure of welcoming Phillip Kurata, the author of The Israeli.
Phil is a novelist and former journalist who grew up in Lawrence, Kansas, and graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in French literature.
He studied at the University of Tunis in the mid-1960s, and as a fluent French speaker, he returned to Tunisia as a Peace Corps volunteer. He stayed in Tunisia afterwards as a public health educator in hospitals and community centers. He has lived, studied, or worked in Japan, North Africa, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Beijing, France, and Washington D.C.
Phil served for many years as a writer with the US Department of State based in Washington, D.C. His first novel, The Reluctant Agent, set in Tunisia, won the fiction prize from Washington Writers’ Publishing House. His most recent novel, The Israeli, was published in 2024 and is a fictionalized story of the legendary Israeli spy, Eli Cohen, and examines the destructive power of ethnic hatred.
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