Dana Shem-Ur (Hebrew: דנה שם-אור; born December 20, 1990) is an Israeli writer, translator, researcher, and polyglot.

[1] A self-taught polyglot, Shem-Ur has mastered seven languages: Chinese, Russian, French, Italian, German, Modern Greek, and English.

The book deals with the alienation and detachment of an Israeli translator living in Paris with her French husband and their child, and expresses the difficulty of immigrants in their new surrounding.

[6][7] Pulitzer Prize winner, author Joshua Cohen, said that this book "establishes Dana Shem-Ur as one of the rising stars of the new Israeli literature".

[7] Shem-Ur actively translates to Hebrew literary fiction and reference books from French, Italian, and Chinese.