THE AUTHOR

Shlomo Kalo was born in 1928, in Sofia, Bulgaria.
When he was 12 years old, he joined an anti-Fascist underground in Bulgaria. Aged 15, under Nazi occupation, he was imprisoned in a concentration camp in Somovit. Aged 18, he won a prize in a poetry competition and went to Prague, where he studied medicine and worked as a journalist. Before immigrating to Israel, aged 21, he was sent to Olomouc to train as a pilot. In 1958 he was awarded M.Sc. in microbiology by the Tel Aviv Univ. For 26 years and until his retirement in 1988 he worked as the director of medical laboratories in Israel's largest healthcare services.
The sharp turn his life which occurred in the first week of 1969, is reflected, among others, in his writings.
More than 60 titles of his were published in Israel, some of which were translated into English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Greek, Portuguese, Korean and more.
His writings include: literary fiction and nonfiction, novels, juvenile, a new genre - "The Documented Story". These works deal with philosophical, contemporary, humane, historical and spiritual themes.

1988 was the year when the extensive media exposure of his contemplative and spiritual lifework began. Since that time, messages and solutions to a variety of issues have been both aired by national TV and radio channels, and widely covered by the press.

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