Michal Govrin (Hebrew: מיכל גוברין; November 24, 1950) is an Israeli author, poet and theater director.

In 2010 Govrin was chosen by the French Salon du Livre[dubious – discuss] as one of the thirty authors that have left a mark on world literature.

She was a Writer in Residence at University of Rutgers and gave an annual guest lecture at the Architecture School of Cooper Union in New York.

As part of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute,[4] Govrin founded in 2013 and was a director of a multidisciplinary research group 'Transmitted Memory and Fiction'.

Seventy years later'[6] was displayed at the Polonsky Academy at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem, along with a symposium and the production of a movie.

Parallel to this project Govrin has founded and was the head of a team of historians, thinkers, and community leaders that composed a ground-breaking ceremony – the "Hitkansut" (Gathering):[7] a "Haggadah" for the Holocaust memorial day.

Since 2016 the Gathering has been published and disseminated by the Hartman Institute and is practiced in a large number of schools, communities, working places or at homes across Israel.