Albert
& Liese Eckstein Scholar in Residence - 2005
Ronit Matalon
Ronit Matalon is an acclaimed writer and prominent cultural critic
who explores the divergent components of Israeli identity. Her characters struggle
between the demands
of the collective and the needs of the individual. Born to Jewish-Egyptian parents
in a new immigrant town near Tel Aviv, Matalon studied comparative literature
and philosophy at Tel Aviv University. She has worked as a journalist, on Israeli
television and at Ha'aretz, covering the first intifada, and commenting on Israeli
culture. Matalon taught creative writing and literature at the Camera Obscura
School of the Arts in Tel Aviv and at the Sam Spiegel School of Film and Television
in Jerusalem. She is senior lecturer of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at
Haifa University, and teaches creative writing. In 1993, she received the Prime
Minister Award in Literature.
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