Ravikovitch biography
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Dahlia Ravikovitch
Biography
Dahlia Ravikovitch was born in Ramat Gan, Israel in Her language, rich inner life and extreme sensitivity have won her an enthusiastic readership in Israel and abroad as one of the most brilliant and versatile Israeli poets. More than 10 of her books have seen print to date, most of them poetry.© Rami Saari (Translated by Lisa Katz)
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A dress of fire and a burning betrayal
Publications
The Love of an Orange()
A Hard Winter()
The Third Book()
All Your Storms and Waves(a collection, )
The Abyss Calls()
A Death in the Family(stories, )
True Love()
Mother With Child()
All the Poems Till Now(a collection, )
Winnie Mandela's Football Team(stories, )
Half an Hour Before the Monsoon()
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Dahlia Ravikovitch
Israeli poet, translator and peace activist
Dahlia Ravikovitch (Hebrew: דליה רביקוביץ'; November 17, – August 21, ) was an Israeli poet, translator and recipient of the Israel Prize for Poetry in [1]
Biography
[edit]Ravikovitch was born in Ramat Gan on November 17, She learned to read and write at the age of three. Her father, Levi, was a Jewish engineer originally from Russia who arrived in Mandatory Palestine from China. Her mother, Michal, was a teacher who came from a religious household. When Dahlia was six, her father was run over and killed by a drunken driver. She moved to Kibbutz Geva with her mother but did not fit into the collectivist mentality and at 13 moved to a foster home in Haifa, the first of several foster homes.[2] It was in those formative years in Haifa that she wrote her very first poem, "Painting", which contrasted the blue of the seaside landscape to the yellow and grey of her inner world.[3]
Ravikovitch married at 18, but divorced after 3 months. Her subsequent marriages also ended in divorce. She has one son, Ido Kalir.[4] After completing her service in the Israel Defense Forces, she studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She worked as a journalist and high school teacher
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Dahlia Ravikovitch: 'The Greatest Canaanitic Woman Lyricist of Shy away Time'?
Ravikovitch has been callinged such nonconforming as “the central pilaster of Canaanitic lyric poetry,” and go to regularly, her translators say, be similar to her “the greatest Canaanitic woman sonneteer of please time.” Additionally such plaudit, her labour has antique credited bring in having vigorous influence forgotten poetry, “launching Israeli movement even formerly it became an specific focus disagree with social unacceptable cultural debate.”
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