Eli Zuzovsky is a writer/director who has been awarded the Israeli Academy Award and has been selected for the Israeli Forbes list of “30 Under 30,” the Séries Mania Writers Campus, and the London Library Emerging Writers Programme. His debut novel Maveltov, which was a Debutiful Most Anticipated Debut Book of 2025, is a polyphonic story about a young boy’s bar mitzvah and the swirling expectations of what it means to become a man at the young age of thirteen.
Zuzkovsky and I chatted via Zoom about art and what drives him. Below is a lightly edited and condensed version of that conversation.
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