Yekhiel Hofer (1906-1972) was a storyteller, poet, and literary essayist, born in Warsaw. He was raised in a Hasidic home and trained in medicine. He survived World War II in the Soviet Union, and then settled in Israel after a few years in Paris. He received the Manger Prize in 1971. Several of his books are fictionalized accounts of Jewish life in Warsaw between the two world wars. The writer Melekh Ravitsh described Hofer as an 'exceptionally vivid author of novels, whose background was the Warsaw courtyard'.