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Ronit Matalon

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Ronit Matalon
Native name
רונית מטלון
BornRonit Matalon
(1959-05-25)25 May 1959
Ganei Tikva, Israel
Died28 December 2017(2017-12-28) (aged 58)
Haifa, Israel
OccupationAuthor
LanguageHebrew
NationalityIsraeli

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Ronit Matalon (Hebrew: רונית מטלון; May 25, 1959 – December 28, 2017) was an Israeli fiction writer.

Biography

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Ronit 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 was a resident of Haifa and taught literature at the University of Haifa.[2] She also taught at the Camera Obscura school for the Arts in Tel Aviv.[citation needed]

Matalon was also a liberal social activist, and participated in demonstrations organized by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. She was 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 recognition

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Novels

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An illustration by Ruth Zarfati for the book A Story that Begins with a Snake's Funeral
  • Strangers at Home (1992)
  • A Story that Begins with a Snake's Funeral (1994, children's book)
  • The One Facing Us (1995)
  • Sarah Sarah (2000)
  • Reading and Writing (2001)
  • Bliss (2003) [11]
  • Uncover Her Face (2005)
  • The Sound of Our Steps (2008)[12]
  • And the Bride Closed the Door (2016) Keter

Articles

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  • "Weddings and Anti-Weddings", Haaretz, 2008[13]

References

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  1. ^ Myers, Linda (February 19, 2004). "Israeli novelist Ronit Matalon speaks Feb. 23 on writing, Middle East". Cornell Chronicle.
  2. ^ "Ronit Matalon". The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature.
  3. ^ Galili, Lily (September 29, 2003). "Writers demand probe into civilian deaths during Gaza strike". Haaretz.com.
  4. ^ Matalon and Stav win Bernstein Prize The Jerusalem Post, July 16, 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". Ynet (in Hebrew).
  7. ^ "Hebrew U. honorary doctorate recipients". The dept. of Media Relations, Hebrew University.
  8. ^ Yudelevitch, Merav (May 24, 2010). "Honorary PhD to Ronit Matalon". Ynet (in Hebrew).
  9. ^ "Author Ronit Matalon, EMET Prize laureate 2016 in the Culture category, field of Hebrew Literature" (in Hebrew). The EMET Prize official website.
  10. ^ Stern, Itay (December 28, 2017). "Ronit Matalon, renowned Israeli author, dies at 58 after battle with cancer". Haaretz. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
  11. ^ Matalon, Ronit (12 August 2003). Bliss: A Novel. Macmillan. ISBN 0805066020.
  12. ^ Laor, Yitzhak (May 2, 2008). "A beautiful bildungsroman". Haaretz.com. and Balint, Benjamin (August 13, 2015). "A Drama of Dislocation". Haaretz.com.
  13. ^ "Weddings and anti-weddings - Haaretz - Israel News". Archived from the original on 2008-10-02. Retrieved 2008-10-02.