Ronit Matalon Explained

Ronit Matalon
Native Name:	רונית מטלון
Native Name Lang:	he
Birth Name:	Ronit Matalon
Birth Date:	25 May 1959
Birth Place:	Ganei Tikva, Israel
Death Place:	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

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.

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

• 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

• 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

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Israeli novelist Ronit Matalon speaks Feb. 23 on writing, Middle East. Linda. Myers. Cornell Chronicle. February 19, 2004.
2. Web site: Ronit Matalon. The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature.
3. Web site: Writers demand probe into civilian deaths during Gaza strike. Lily. Galili. September 29, 2003. Haaretz.com.
4. http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/Books/Article.aspx?id=148862 Matalon and Stav win Bernstein Prize
5. http://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-leisure/forget-sapir-give-her-the-bernstein-1.280113 Forget Sapir. Give her the Bernstein
6. News: Neuman Prize for Literature to Ronit Matalon. Meirav. Yudelevitch. March 14, 2010. Ynet. Hebrew.
7. Web site: Hebrew U. honorary doctorate recipients. The dept. of Media Relations, Hebrew University.
8. News: Honorary PhD to Ronit Matalon. Merav. Yudelevitch. May 24, 2010. Ynet. Hebrew.
9. Web site: Author Ronit Matalon, EMET Prize laureate 2016 in the Culture category, field of Hebrew Literature. The EMET Prize official website. Hebrew.
10. Web site: Ronit Matalon, renowned Israeli author, dies at 58 after battle with cancer. Stern. Itay. Haaretz. December 28, 2017. December 29, 2017.
11. Book: Matalon, Ronit . Bliss: A Novel . 12 August 2003. Macmillan . 0805066020 .
12. Web site: A beautiful bildungsroman . Yitzhak . Laor . May 2, 2008 . Haaretz.com. and Web site: A Drama of Dislocation . Benjamin. Balint. August 13, 2015 . Haaretz.com.
13. Web site: Weddings and anti-weddings - Haaretz - Israel News . 2008-10-02 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081002114829/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1025432.html . 2008-10-02 .