Ronit Matalon

Ronit Matalon (Hebrew: רונית מטלון, born 1959) is an Israeli fiction writer.

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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

Articles

References

  1. ^ 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. 
  2. ^ "Ronit Matalon". The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature. http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=168. 
  3. ^ 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. 
  4. ^ Matalon and Stav win Bernstein Prize The Jerusalem Post, 16 July 2009
  5. ^ Forget Sapir. Give her the Bernstein Haaretz, 16 July 2009
  6. ^ 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. 
  7. ^ "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. 
  8. ^ 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. 
  9. ^ 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. 
  10. ^ Matalon, Ronit. "Bliss: A Novel". Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0805066020. Retrieved 2011-12-04. 
  11. ^ Laor, Yitzhak (May 2, 2008). "A beautiful bildungsroman". Haaretz.com. http://www.haaretz.com/general/a-beautiful-bildungsroman-1.245067. 
  12. ^ http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1025432.html