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
- 2009 - Matalon received the Bernstein Prize (original Hebrew novel category), for her novel "The Sound of Our Steps".[4][5]
- 2010 - Matalon received the Neuman prize, a literary prize given by Bar-Ilan University.[6]
- 2010 - Matalon received an honorary PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on June 6, 2010 for her contributions to literature and for her social activism.[7][8]
Novels
- 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) [9]
- Uncover Her Face (2005)
- The Sound of Our Steps (2008)[10]
Articles
- "Weddings and Anti-Weddings", Haaretz, 2008[11]
References
- ↑ Myers, Linda (February 19, 2004). "Israeli novelist Ronit Matalon speaks Feb. 23 on writing, Middle East". Cornell Chronicle.
- ↑ "Ronit Matalon". The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature.
- ↑ Galili, Lily (Sep 29, 2003). "Writers demand probe into civilian deaths during Gaza strike". Haaretz.com.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Hebrew U. honorary doctorate recipients include Dorit Beinisch, Dr. Marcos Aguinis, Evgeny Kissin". The dept. of Media Relations, Hebrew University.
- ↑ Yudelevitch, Merav (May 24, 2010). "Honorary PhD to Ronit Matalon" (in Hebrew). Ynet.
- ↑ Matalon, Ronit. "Bliss: A Novel". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2011-12-04.
- ↑ Laor, Yitzhak (May 2, 2008). "A beautiful bildungsroman". Haaretz.com. and Balint, Benjamin (August 13, 2015). "A Drama of Dislocation". Haaretz.com.
- ↑ http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1025432.html