Name Ronit Matalon Role Fiction writer | Education Tel Aviv University Movies Dreams of Innocence | |
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Books The one facing us, Bliss: A Novel, The Sound of Our Steps: A Similar People Ariel Hirschfeld, Sami Michael, David Grossman, Dahlia Ravikovitch, Orly Castel‑Bloom |
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Ronit Matalon (Hebrew: רונית מטלון, born 1959) is an Israeli fiction writer.
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- Assises Internationales du Roman 2013 Comment faire parler ses personnages
- About
- Awards and honors
- Novels
- Articles
- References
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About
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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. She is a resident of Tel Aviv and teaches literature at the University of Haifa. She also taught at the Camera Obscura school for the arts in Tel Aviv.
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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.