David Grossman is an Israeli novelist and essayist dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He wrote The Yellow Wind, Her Body Knows, and, most recently, To the End of the Land, after his son's death. In 2010, Grossman was awarded the German Book Trade Peace Prize. Peace Activist. 
 

"I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters. At times I feel as if I am digging up people from the ice in which reality enshrouded them, but maybe, more than anything else, it is myself that I am now digging up."

— David Grossman, Writing in the Dark