Trans­la­tor Alo­ma Hal­ter is a writer, poet, trans­la­tor, and edi­tor. She was born in Lon­don, stud­ied lit­er­a­ture at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cam­bridge, and came to Israel in 1980. Hal­ter has trans­lat­ed four nov­els by Aharon Appelfeld into Eng­lish, includ­ing The Sto­ry of a Life, and edit­ed many nov­els which include recip­i­ents of the Koret Prize and a Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award. She lives in Jerusalem with her two daughters.