Ronit Matalon

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Ronit Matalon ( Hebrew רונית מטלון; * May 25, 1959 in Ganei Tikva ; † December 28, 2017 in Haifa ) was an Israeli writer , journalist and university lecturer .

Life

Ronit Matalon was born in Ganei Tikva in 1959 as the daughter of Jewish immigrants from Egypt . She studied literature and philosophy at Tel Aviv University . In the 1980s she began to be active in literature. She worked for several years as a reporter for the left-liberal daily Haaretz and reported from the Palestinian territories during the First Intifada in the 1990s, but finally turned to her writing career. From 1993 to 2001 she taught at the Camera Obscura School for the Arts in Tel Aviv the writing of screenplays .

In 2009 she was appointed Associate Professor at the Faculty of Hebrew and Contemporary Literature at Haifa University. She was later appointed full professor . At the University of Haifa, she was the director of the MA program in creative writing .

In her books, Matalon dealt with the penetration of human and social sensitivities. Her youth book A Story Beginning with the Burial of a Snake, published in 1989, was made into a film in 1994. In her book Was die Bilder nicht Tell , Matalon, who dealt intensively with her oriental heritage, processed her own family history in the form of a fiction. In addition to her books, she has published short stories such as the anthology Strangers at Home , as well as articles, essays and literary reviews .

Matalon has repeatedly expressed criticism of Israeli occupation and social policies and of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu .

Matalon died on December 28, 2017 at the age of 58 at the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa of complications from cancer .

family

Matalon had a son and a daughter.

Awards

  • 2009: Bernstein Prize for Literature
  • 2010: Honorary doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • 2010: Neuman Prize for lifetime achievement in Hebrew Literature
  • 2013: Prix ​​Alberto Benveniste of the Center Alberto-Benveniste d'études sépharades et d'histoire socioculturelle des Juifs (Paris)
  • 2016: EMET Prize in the Art / Culture category.
  • On December 27, 2017, the day before her death, she was awarded the Brenner Prize for her novel And the Bride Closed the Door . Her daughter accepted the award, who read out the acceptance speech written by her mother.

Works (selection)

  • סיפור שמתחיל בלוויה של נחש (1989)
    • A story that begins with the burial of a snake . Translation by Vera Loos and Naomi Nir-Bleimling. Carl Hanser, 1999. ISBN 978-3-446-19741-1
  • זרים בבית (1992, Strangers at Home )
  • זה עם הפנים אלינו (1995)
  • שרה שרה (2000)
  • קול צעדינו (2007, The Sound of Our Steps )
  • והכלה סגרה את הדלת (2016, And the Bride Closed the Door )
    • And the bride closed the door. Novel . Translation of Gundula Schiffer. Luchterhand, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-630-87564-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Writer Ronit Matalon has died . Deutschlandfunk , December 30, 2017, accessed on December 31, 2017.
  2. ^ Hebrew U. honorary doctorate recipients include Dorit Beinisch, Dr. Marcos Aguinis, Evgeny Kissin . Press release of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 3, 2010, accessed December 31, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Matalon, Ronit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Ganei Tikva
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 2017
Place of death Haifa