Orly Castel-Bloom (Hebrew: ????? ????-?????) is an Israeli author.
Orly Castel-Bloom was born in Northern Tel Aviv in 1960, to a family of French-speaking Egyptian Jews.
Until the age of three, she had French nannies and spoke only French.
She studied film at Tel Aviv University and theater at the Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts in Ramat Gan.Castel-Bloom lives in Tel Aviv and has two children.
She has lectured at the universities of Harvard, UCLA, Cambridge and Oxford and currently teaches creative writing at Tel Aviv University.