Ronit Matalon
Ronit Matalon (Hebrew: רונית מטלון, born 1959) is an Israeli fiction writer.
About
Matalon was born in Ganei Tikva, Israel, the daughter of Egyptian-Jewish immigrants. Matalon studied literature and philosophy at Tel Aviv University and worked as a journalist for Haaretz newspaper, where she covered Gaza and the West Bank between 1987 and 1993.[1] She is a resident of Tel Aviv and teaches literature at the University of Haifa.[2] She also taught at the Camera Obscura school for the arts in Tel Aviv.
Matalon is an important feminist-oriental voice in contemporary Hebrew literature, and has published essays on the desire to portray alternative eastern-western characterizations, to the categorizations in existing Israeli literature.
Matalon is also a liberal social activist, and has participated in demonstrations organized by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. She is a member of the Art and Culture Council of the Ministry of Education, and the Forum for Mediterranean Culture at the Van Leer Institute. In 2003, she was a co-petitioner to the Supreme Court of Israel to investigate the assassination of Salah Shehade.[3]
Awards and honors
Novels
- Strangers at Home (1992)
- A Story that Begins with a Snake's Funeral (1994, children's book)
- The One Facing Us (1995)[9]
- Sarah Sarah (2000)
- Reading and Writing (2001)
- Bliss (2003) [10]
- Uncover Her Face (2005)
- The Sound of Our Steps (2008)[11]
Articles
- "Weddings and Anti-Weddings", Haaretz, 2008[12]
References
- ^ Myers, Linda (February 19, 2004). "Israeli novelist Ronit Matalon speaks Feb. 23 on writing, Middle East". Cornell Chronicle. http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/04/2.19.04/Matalon.html.
- ^ "Ronit Matalon". The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature. http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=168.
- ^ Galili, Lily (Sept.29, 2003). "Writers demand probe into civilian deaths during Gaza strike". Haaretz.com. http://www.haaretz.com/news/writers-demand-probe-into-civilian-deaths-during-gaza-strike-1.101472.
- ^ Matalon and Stav win Bernstein Prize The Jerusalem Post, 16 July 2009
- ^ Forget Sapir. Give her the Bernstein Haaretz, 16 July 2009
- ^ Yudelevitch, Meirav (March 14, 2010). "Neuman Prize for Literature to Ronit Matalon" (in Hebrew). Ynet. http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3862455,00.html.
- ^ "Hebrew U. honorary doctorate recipients include Dorit Beinisch, Dr. Marcos Aguinis, Evgeny Kissin". The dept. of Media Relations, Hebrew University. http://www.huji.ac.il/cgi-bin/dovrut/dovrut_search_eng.pl?mesge127557381232688760.
- ^ Yudelevitch, Merav (May 24, 2010). "Honorary PhD to Ronit Matalon" (in Hebrew). Ynet. http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3893578,00.html.
- ^ Abramovich, Dvir (2001). "Ronit Matalon’s Ethnic Masterpiece". Australian Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. XV. pp. 89–103. http://www.utoronto.ca/wjudaism/journal/vol3n2/abramovich_article.pdf.
- ^ Matalon, Ronit. "Bliss: A Novel". Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0805066020. Retrieved 2011-12-04.
- ^ Laor, Yitzhak (May 2, 2008). "A beautiful bildungsroman". Haaretz.com. http://www.haaretz.com/general/a-beautiful-bildungsroman-1.245067.
- ^ http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1025432.html
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