Ronit Matalon
Ronit Matalon | |
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| Native name | רונית מטלון |
| Born | Ronit Matalon 25 May 1959 |
| Died | 28 December 2017 (aged 58) Haifa, Israel |
| Occupation | Author |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Nationality | Israeli |
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Ronit Matalon (Hebrew: רונית מטלון; May 25, 1959 – December 28, 2017) was an Israeli fiction writer.
Biography
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]- 1994 – Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works
- 2009 – Bernstein Prize (original Hebrew novel category), for her novel "The Sound of Our Steps".[4][5]
- 2010 – Neuman prize, a literary prize given by Bar-Ilan University.[6]
- 2010 – Honorary Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on June 6, 2010 for her contributions to literature and for her social activism.[7][8]
- 2016 – The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture (in Hebrew literature) [9]
- 2017 – Brenner Prize for her novel, And the Bride Closed the Door (2016) [10]
Novels
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- 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
[edit | edit source]- "Weddings and Anti-Weddings", Haaretz, 2008[13]
References
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- ^ Matalon and Stav win Bernstein Prize The Jerusalem Post, July 16, 2009.
- ^ Forget Sapir. Give her the Bernstein, Haaretz, 16 July 2009.
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- 1959 births
- 2017 deaths
- Jewish Israeli novelists
- Israeli people of Egyptian-Jewish descent
- Academic staff of the University of Haifa
- Tel Aviv University alumni
- Bernstein Prize recipients
- Brenner Prize recipients
- EMET Prize recipients in Culture and Art
- Israeli women children's writers
- Israeli women novelists
- Recipients of Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works
- Deaths from cancer in Israel
- Burials at Kiryat Shaul Cemetery
- People from Central District (Israel)
- Jewish women writers
- 20th-century Israeli women writers
- 21st-century Israeli women writers
- 20th-century Israeli novelists
- 21st-century Israeli novelists
- 20th-century Israeli Jews
- 21st-century Israeli Jews