Sivan Ben Yishai (b. 1978 in Israel/ Palestine) is one of the most important playwrights of her generation. Her plays are frequently performed in German-speaking countries and internationally, including South Korea, France, Spain, Czechia, Sweden and Finland. Sivan Ben Yishai won the 2022 Mülheim Drama Prize for Wounds Are Forever (Self-portrait as the National Poet) and in 2024 for Nora or How to Digest the Master’s House, and has been nominated twice more, with LOVE/ An argumentative exercise (2020) and Offending the Stage (2023). By Theater heute, she was voted Playwright of the Year (2022 and 2023), when her plays have also been invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen. Her work is translated from English into German by Maren Kames and Gerhild Steinbuch. Sivan Ben Yishai has lived in Berlin since 2012.