Roni Givati

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Roni Givati ( Hebrew רוני גבעתי, born April 19, 1940 in Binjamina , Palestine (League of Nations mandate) ; died April 2, 2014 ) was an Israeli writer.

life and work

Roni Givati, whose mother came from Regensburg , was born in Binjamina in 1940 and spent her childhood in Kibbutz Kfar Blum . From 1950 she stayed in England with her parents for two years. There she first encountered anti-Semitism when she was around ten years old when her friend was attacked and beaten. She felt guilty that she hadn't helped her friend in this situation; She later addressed this in the youth book Swans from Another Lake and in an autobiographical novel for adults. After her marriage in 1960, she moved to kibbutz En Gedi on the Dead Sea, where she worked as an educator for decades. For five years she was the editor of books for children and young people at the kibbutz publishing house Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House .

Gilati began writing in 1972 and has written novels for adults as well as books for children and young people. Except for the two books translated into German, her works have only appeared in Hebrew . Her deep closeness to nature can be felt in all books. This becomes particularly clear in the book The Secret of the Magic Thicket from 1980 (only published in Hebrew), in which four children have various adventures in a paradisiacal landscape.

Important works

The young adult book Swans from Another Lake deals with moving to a foreign country and growing up. Noga, who spent her childhood on a kibbutz in Israel, moved with her mother to London as a teenager, where her father had lived for a year for professional reasons. Based on the encounter with her cousin Mirjam, the clash of different cultures is shown. Noga grew up with casual manners, close to nature and religiously secular. She now has to cope with big city life. But it is more difficult for her that she has to submit to the authoritarian constraints of the religious school that she attends with Mirjam. Noga argues with the religious Mirjam over issues such as the existence of God and the creation of the universe. When Mirjam is attacked by four youthful anti-Semites in a park, Noga does not stand by her and loses their friendship.

The book Die Wüstentöchter is also about growing up, but it also conveys cultural and historical knowledge about Judaism in the ancient world, for example the pilgrimage to Jerusalem . The first-person narrator Avital is a young person who grew up in the village of En Gedi in Jewish Palestine in the first century BC.

Awards

  • 1974: Newman Prize for Debut Book
  • 1979: Andersen Honor Citation
  • 1991 and 1997: Ze'ev Prize
  • 1998 and 2010: Prime Minister's Prize

Works in German translation

literature

  • Roni Givati. In: Mirjam Morad (Hrsg.): Encounter with children's and youth literature from Israel . Catalog for the event week and exhibition. (ZIRKULAR special number 39, June 1994), Documentation Center for Newer Austrian Literature in the Literaturhaus , Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-900467-39-0 , pp. 59–60.

Web links

  • Roni Givati at ITHL (Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Encounter with children's and youth literature from Israel , 1994, p. 59 (According to this source, Roni Givati ​​was born in Kibbutz Kfar Blum; the Wikipedia article follows the newer source ITHL.)
  2. ↑ Encounter with children's and youth literature from Israel , 1994, p. 60.
  3. ↑ The Secret of the Magic Thicket. Retrieved November 11, 2017.
  4. ↑ Swans from Another Lake. Retrieved November 11, 2017.
  5. ↑ My Perfume Garden on ihtl.org.Retrieved November 11, 2017.
  6. ↑ The desert daughters review by Verena Stössinger. Retrieved November 11, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Givati, Roni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES רוני גבעתי (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli author
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Binjamina
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 2014