Tomer Gardi was born in 1974 at Kibbutz Dan in Galilee and studied literature and education in Jerusalem, Berlin, and Beer Sheva. His literary essay Rock, Paper was published (in Hebrew) in 2011, and as Stein, Papier in German in 2013. In 2016, Droschl published Broken German, his first novel, an excerpt of which he read at the 40^th Festival of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt. The radio drama version of Broken German (produced by SWR, directed by Noam Brusilovsky) won ARD’s 2017 German Radio Drama Award. Die Feuerbringer – Eine Schlager-Operetta [“The Fire Bringers: A Schlager Operetta”](a WDR and BR co-production, directed by Susanne Krings) was selected by the jury of the German Academy of Performing Arts as the Radio Drama of the Month for February 2018. In 2019, Tomer Gardi received the Alfred Döblin Prize for his second novel, Sonst kriegen Sie Ihr Geld zurück [“Otherwise You Will Get Your Money Back”]. In 2020, he received a scholarship for his novel Eine runde Sache [“Something Round”] from the German Literary Foundation and in 2021, he was awarded a scholarship from the Department of Culture of the Berlin Senate for Literature in a Non-German Language. His novel Eine runde Sache won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2022. He lives in Berlin.

Tomer Gardi is a resident at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from February until May 2024.