Isidoro B. Holcberg was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1954 to Jewish immigrant parents who met in Bolivia. His mother was born in Belgium and arrived in La Paz in 1940, escaping the horrors of WWII. His father was born in a small shtetl in Poland and spent the war in Russia, reaching Bolivia in 1947.

When Holcberg was 9 years old, the family moved to São Paulo, Brazil. There, he grew up and studied pharmacology and biochemistry. At the age of 24, he moved to Israel where he acquired an M.Sc. in food engineering and biotechnology at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He’s been living in Israel ever since, working as a chemist, and for the last 30 years has lived with his partner Danny.

With such a background, and as an accomplished traveler and autodidact, he has based his fiction on a wealth of life-long experiences, using wit and humor to entertain an eclectic readership. His prose can be funny or dead serious, always striving to create an authentic core to the subjects and characters in his work, giving them an unmistakable uniqueness.