Mira Magén

Mira Magén (born in Kfar Saba in the 1950s ) is an Israeli writer.

Life

Mira Magén was born in the early 1950s , she grew up in a rural, Orthodox, Eastern Jewish environment, her parents had fled the Germans from Poland and Czechoslovakia during the Third Reich.

Magén did military service and studied psychology and sociology and worked after further training as a nurse in a Jerusalem hospital in an oncology department. She started writing in the early 1990s . Her works became bestsellers in Israel. In 1988 she received the Olschwung Foundation Award and in 2005 the Prime Minister's Prize. So far she has received the Book Publishers Association's Gold Book Prize five times: 2001, 2004, 2005, 2011 and 2012. Translations of her works have been published in German, French and Italian.

Magén also holds teaching positions, for example at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . She is a member of the Israeli peace movement Shalom Achshaw .

She lives in Jerusalem with her husband, an engineer with whom she has three children .

Works in German translation

• Well buttoned . Stories from Israel. From the Hebrew by Ruth Melcer, Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 978-3-596-13257-7 (Hebr. Kaftorim Rechusim Heitev , 1994)
• Don't knock on that wall . Novel. Translated from Hebrew by Mirjam Pressler , dtv , Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-423-24250-9 (Hebr. Al Takeh Ba-Kir , 1997)
• Finally, love . Novel. Translated from Hebrew by Mirjam Pressler , dtv , Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-423-24326-1 (Hebr.Be -Shochvi U Be-Kumi, Isha , 2000)
• When her angels slept . Novel. From the Hebrew by Mirjam Pressler , dtv , Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-423-24532-6 (Hebr. Malacheia Nirdemu Kulam , 2003)
• Butterflies in the rain . Novel. From the Hebrew by Mirjam Pressler , dtv , Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-24596-8 (Hebr. Parparim Be-Geshem , 2005)
• Time will tell . Novel. From the Hebrew by Mirjam Pressler , dtv , Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-423-24747-4 (Hebr. Yamim Yagidu, Anna , 2008)
• Vodka and bread . Novel. Translated from the Hebrew by Mirjam Pressler , dtv , Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-423-24923-2 (Hebr. Vodka Ve-Lechem , 2010)
• Too blue eyes . Novel. From the Hebrew by Anne Birkenhauer, dtv , Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-423-26129-6 (Hebr. Eynayim Kchulot Miday , 2012)
• Confidence . Novel. From the Hebrew by Mirjam Pressler, dtv, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-423-28151-5

literature

• Jeannette Villachica: «Religion is in my blood». The Israeli Mira Magén lives in the balancing act between Jewish orthodoxy and modernity , in: NZZ , April 17, 2010

Web links

• Literature by and about Mira Magén in the catalog of the German National Library
• Mira Magén at Munzinger
• Short biography and reviews of works by Mira Magén at perlentaucher.de

Remarks

1. ↑ cf. Website of the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature ITHL