The poet and author, who has authored more than a hundred books, won the prestigious award • From the committee's reasons: "A rare and miraculous voice in Hebrew literature ... her writing reaches the most intimate places in the human psyche"
"Power erupts without violence."
Nurit Zarchi
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Liron Almog
Nurit Zarchi won the title of Bride of the Israel Prize in Literature and Poetry - Creators and Translators for the year 5701. Her victory was announced today (Monday) by Education Minister Yoav Galant. Schwager reviewer.
In its explanatory memorandum, the committee noted: "The poet and author Nurit Zarchi is a rare and wonderful voice in Hebrew literature. The main test of excellent literature is its uniqueness and personal stamp, namely the feeling that the creator establishes his own speech, with special characteristics and language of his own." A huge of more than a hundred books, and in literary genres of poetry, fiction, novels, children's literature, essays and articles.
"Her writing is groundbreaking, personal and dialogical, metaphysical and concrete, Jewish and universal, and reaches the most intimate places in the human psyche. Pain appears without bitterness, power erupts without violence, magic rarely hunts the creative and existential wonder. More than forty years of work In the current Hebrew literature and justify on every scale the awarding of the Israel Prize to this talented artist. "
In an interview with Israel Today, Zarhi spoke about the process of writing her new book, "Loneliness or": "The book is neither a novel nor a collection of essays. A dream, which is very internal and to a very general extent. The loneliness I wrote about is based on personal experience, but from it I came to an impersonal place. Writing is a strange animal. The trouble is that you can not be smarter than it. "I'm limited to what I write."
