שְׁכַר סוֹפְרים - פודקאסט מבית עברית ונוצה וקסת | המקום המהסס | אורלי קסטל בלום 7.7.2025

In the eleventh episode of Writers' Salary, Shai Amit hosts the writer Orly Castel-Blum. Perhaps the most prominent writer of the last three decades. A writer who is acknowledged by many Israeli writers as one of the greatest in the world. From book to book, her unique voice emerged from the multitude of sounds of literature, in a way that is inimitable and unlike anything else that has ever been here - a kind of evolutionary leap of Hebrew literature. We set out on a journey together with a child of immigrants from Egypt, who learned to observe the movement of the world from a young age out of her foreignness, we grew up with a girl whose Hebrew language had not yet fully penetrated her consciousness, until one day, in a random book she opened, the words stuck to the page and from there they navigated her sensory experience in the world. Orly taught us how to observe, how to see the invisible, how to live in order to write or write in order to live. With her great generosity, Orly gave us access to her consciousness, her way of thinking and her writing style. We traveled together in this immense dimension between imagination and reality to embrace the possibility of experiencing the world with her senses and understand in motion why writing for her is life or even before life itself. We talked about motherhood, about love, about grandmothers as a renewed flowering. About literary movements that were parallel to her life and the movement between surrealism and realism. About Maoz Aviv and London Minster, about Cairo and Paris, until we wandered around the world following the dozens of languages ​​into which her books were translated. At the end of the journey, when we sat down to rest, we raised to life, to the life of the initial and simple spark of all her writing, her pure and clean desire - to be left to her own devices. ~*~ Writers' Salary is a filmed dialogue, authentic conversations about literature and poetry. Every week, the Hebrew and Feather and Kesat literary salon will host a writer, poet, editor, language and literature researcher and more, for a conversation (perhaps a little stilted) about a life journey, a literary worldview, writing alongside life or as a tool for staying alive, entering into consciousness. We will move together in the guest's conscious and subconscious, between the text and the subtext of the freely spoken words, we will peel away layers of self-importance and travel through the spaces of his thoughts, we will understand his worldview, we will try to dismantle the ability to observe and write about and about the reality perceived by the senses. We will be moved and laugh between the forces of decline and growth, we will stop to breathe between life stations and between book and book, up to the personal interpretation of the literary horizon in the space in which we live.