Why We Keep Missing the Only Moment That Matters | Yoav Avni

Israeli novelist and translator Yoav Avni joins the World XP Podcast to explore time, artificial intelligence, creativity, and why so many of us spend our lives thinking about the past or worrying about the future instead of actually experiencing the present. Yoav discusses his new time-travel novel Time Clocks, the challenge of translating literature between Hebrew and English, leaving a 20-year career in tech to focus on writing, rebuilding his life after a personal crisis, and why he sees AI as a tool rather than something humans should automatically fear.
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Time Clocks: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/roundfire-books/our-books/time-clocks
Website: https://www.yoavavni.com/english.php
Yoav Avni is an Israeli author, translator, editor, and writing mentor, born in 1969. His fiction includes novels and short stories. His novels have been published by two of Israel’s leading publishing houses, Kinneret-Zmora-Bitan and Keter. One of them, Three Things for a Desert Island, became a national bestseller, and two of his books won the Israeli Geffen Award for Best Speculative Novel, often described as Israel’s equivalent of the Hugo Award.
His latest novel, Time Clocks, was published in Hebrew in December 2024 and is scheduled for international release in English on September 29, 2026, from Roundfire Books (UK/US). His novel Crossing a River Twice was first published in Hebrew in Israel in 2016 and is scheduled for English-language publication in the UK and the United States in 2027.
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