Motty Fogel is an Israeli author, essayist, and literary critic. His debut book, Not a Memoir (Persimmon, 2023)—supported by the Israel Lottery Council for Culture and the Arts—was praised for its innovative blend of personal narrative and literary reflection.

During his stay at Schloss Wiepersdorf he will work on a hybrid novel-essay that pairs a story of amnesia and exile with pseudo-academic chapters arguing that Georges Perec faked his own death—linking personal guilt to collective trauma and revenge.