Corinna Hasofferett
Corinna Hasofferett , Hebrew קורינה הסופרת, as Corinna Bercu (born September 22, 1935 in Tecuci , Romania ) is an Israeli writer. Her Hebrew books appear under her first name Corinna, the translations into other languages under the name "Corinna Hasofferett" (Corinna, the writer). She lives in Tel Aviv .
Life
Corinna Hasofferett was born as the daughter of Lazar and Dorina Bercu in Tecuci , Romania . Her childhood, primary school attendance at the time of the Holocaust , the life of the Jewish community in Romania and the new beginning in Israel are topics of her ninth book, a historical-literary autobiography on which she worked from 2008 to 2018.
At the age of 13, she immigrated with her parents to the newly founded state of Israel in July 1848. The family previously spent six months in British internment camps in Cyprus . In Tel Aviv she joined the youth association Haschomer Hazair and after two years of high school switched to the local publishing house Sifriat Poalim , where she received guidance from the Israeli poet and peace activist Avraham Shlonsky . From 1953 to 1957 she did her military service as a Nachal soldier in Kibbutz Carmia in the south of the country, after which she moved to Kibbutz Schoval . In 1960 she returned to Tel Aviv. In the years 1965 to 1968 Corinna Hasofferett made up her Abitur and then studied Hebrew and English literature at Tel Aviv University . After that, she briefly taught at a high school in 'Akkô , but had to give up this job because of a heart operation. (Another followed later). In 1975 she initiated and led meetings between young academics - from the Jewish town of Schlomi and the Arab town of Tamra - with Jewish and Arab artists for six months . In 1984 she founded and directed the Israeli Arts Center Hilai - an international artists' colony in Galilee and the Negev that existed for eleven years; Corinna then had to give up this project due to renewed heart problems. During this period, over four hundred domestic and foreign artists populated the guest apartments and from there directed hundreds of art projects with the aim of strengthening peaceful coexistence in Israel through the arts. In 2002 Corinna Hasofferett founded the book publisher HudnaPress , which bears his name Hudna , because it is an unsolved mystery when a Hudna , a permanent ceasefire under Islamic law, will finally occur in the Middle East .
- Corinna has been writing a multilingual blog called Blogger since 2002 .
- In June 2003 she started a Hebrew blog called Writers, Publishers, Turning the World Inside Out .
- Corinna posts extensively on Facebook as well as in blogs and forums that she founded to stand up for justice for Holocaust survivors, human dignity, women's rights and environmental protection.
She is the mother of three children: Erga Netz - documentary film director, Lilach Peled - flamenco dancer and choreographer and Reviel Netz - poet and historian.
In an interview with Noam Semel on television channel 33, she answered the question “What is your home?” With “The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials.” In an interview for the Tel Aviv weekly Ha'ir about the appearance of her book Landscapes of the Soul , she said:
“I'm really not interested in labels. I have games with language and symbols that the reader can discover for themselves. Life doesn't go smoothly for me. When the reader discovers this, he becomes spiritually stimulated. Literature is a discovery, not a snack. I'm not telling how my heroine gets up in the morning and puts toothpaste on the toothbrush. In my opinion, this is not literature, but chatter. I can't even read that. "
Awards
- 1973: she received the Prize of the Writers' Union for "A Kind of Answer" (Juror Aharon Megged )
- 1979: the Josef Aricha short story award for "Revelation" (1)
- 1989: The Writers' Union Prize for Pink Pages (jury Mosche Schamir and Schlomo Nitzan)
- 2008: the Havatzelet Fund award for the monumental book In Unknown Land.
- 1994: BCLA (British Comparative Literature Association) First Prize of the British Association of Professors in Comparative Literature for the English edition of the novella "Revelation", together with the translator Betsy Rosenberg .
- 1996–1998 she received residency grants for the artist colonies Yaddo , Milay , and Ledig , USA .
- In addition, there were prizes and grants from:
Works (selection)
- In search of my youth , translated by Ruth Achlama, Hudna 2018
- Who saw Mickey . Hudna 2008, ISBN 978-965-7246-04-7 , updated new edition of the children's book first published in 1962
- Turn the world upside down . Satire, Hudna 2007, ISBN 965-7246-03-2
- In an unknown land . Polyphonic novel, Hudna 2007, ISBN 965-7246-02-4
- Landscapes of the soul , prose, Hudna 2003, ISBN 965-7246-01-6
- Secrets - A Little Trilogy. Hudna 2002, ISBN 965-7246-00-8
- Pink Pages - Stories, Zmora-Bitan-Modan and Writers' Association 1987.
- One Kind of Answer - Lyric Prose, Massada and Writers' Union 1973.
- Who saw Mickey - children's book, Daat 1962.
Subjects of several books by Corinna Hasofferett
- One Kind of Answer (1973) - two women in the shelter during the Six Day War. The heroine of the book, Annie, lets memories of her life arise in a monologue - in the spirit of what Martin Buber reports in The Tales of the Hasidim: “Rabbi Elimelech used to say that in repentance man must go back to the past which she brought with her, and so on up to the first and also repent for these. He himself has repented for trampling his mother's breasts when he was a baby. "
- Secrets - A Little Trilogy (2002) - Prose in connected stories: The prism here is Anna, a Jewish Israeli. The last novella, "Revelation," contains the diary of Yuar, a Palestinian Israeli woman. This novella won first place at the 1978 Aricha Short Story Award.
- Landscapes of the Soul - When We Were Children (2003): The Myth of Childhood as Paradise. A literary collage of conversations with women writers from all over the world about landscapes of the soul and about names and their meanings. The participants were: London-born Israeli poet Karen Alkalay-Gut ; the Egyptian children's book writer Niam elBaz ; the Palestinian poet Anisah Darwish ; the Austrian writer Barbara Frischmuth ; the Lebanon-born French poet Venus Khoury-Gatta ; the French poet Michelle Grangaud , born in Algeria as the daughter of colonialists ; the Finnish writer Leena Lander ; the Italian writer Dacia Maraini ; the Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb ; the Tunisian-born French writer Amina Said ; the Danish writer Hanne Marie Svendson ; Russian writer Svetlana Vasilenko , born in a secret town where she grew up near astronauts and atomic bombs; the French writer Leila Sebbar , daughter of a Muslim father and a French mother, born and raised in Algeria before and during the revolution; and the Dutch-born writer Marion Bloem , daughter of an Indonesian family who bears the scars of long discrimination.
- In an Unknown Land - polyphonic novel (2007) - a mosaic of voices that revived the first formative years of the State of Israel, images of a country whose secrets few shared, in closed groups that had vowed silence. The book begins with the search for traces that two nineteen-year-olds have left in the memories of many people: Amnon Avokai from the paratroopers and Eli Grünfeld from the Pioneering Youth (Nachal), two friends from the Hashomer Hatzair youth group in the Tel Aviv group , who together with the group of immigrants in Jaffa , to which the author belonged, were assigned to the settlement group that was supposed to supplement the Kibbutz Carmia on the border with the Gaza Strip. Amnon fell in the attack on the Egyptian fortifications in Kuntilla in October 1955. Eli fell in the attack on the Jordanian police station in Kalkiliya .
- Turn the world upside down / The Blog (2008) - a socio-political satire. The blog follows the seething Israeli reality. A kaleidoscope of opinions and notes illustrated by Israel-born Canadian artist Yonatan Amitay . Oral story.
- Who has seen Micky (2008), updated new edition of the children's book first published in 1962 - a little girl named Erga leaves the house to look for a lost treasure, Mickey the puppy. A miracle cup is ready to help Erga. On the kibbutz grounds and with the neighboring Bedouins across the street, she encounters the world of living beings and objects, known and different, until she comes across the tale of Tolstoy's story of the place where the treasure was waiting for her. Respect for different fellow human beings and love for nature are conveyed.
Honors
The writer Corinna received the Aricha Prize, Maariv, January 5, 1979.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jacket Magazine
- ↑ Carmia Carmia
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/aug/27/guardianobituaries.israel
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ ES Shaffer, Dr. Michal Sapir Corinna's Revelation . Comparative Criticism, volume 18 pp. 175-195 Cambridge University Press 1996, ISBN 0-521-57148-0
- ↑ 1979/01/05 | 04412 Maariv
- ↑ Carmia
- ↑ 1979/01/05 | 04412 Maariv
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hasofferett, Corinna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bercu, Corinna; קורינה הסופרת (Hebrew) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tecuci , Romania |