Aner Shalev is an Israeli mathematician and writer born in 1958 in Kibbutz Kinneret, Tiberias. Currently Shalev is a Professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Einstein Institute of Mathematics.
At the moment Shalev is in Levico Terme, Trento, Italy for a conference. He was interviewed by Wikinews.
What are you going to talk about here in Levico?
Why did you choose to study mathematics?
Many people, and many students, dislike math. Why do you think it is so?
You're not only a mathematician. You also wrote two collections of short stories and a novel. Why did you begin to write?
Why did you choose this particular structure?
Why Adam and Eva?
In Italian the book was renamed Dove finisce New York (Where New York ends). Do you like that title?
The novel was published in Hebrew in 2004 but takes place before September 11th because the Twin Towers are still there. Why? Is there a particular reason?
Do you have other literary project for the future?
You are professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. How's life there?
Do you know Wikipedia?

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Wikinews interviews Israeli mathematician and writer Aner Shalev