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The writer and poet Nurit Zarchi is the bride of the Israel Prize for Literature for the year 5771 - Walla! Culture

2021-03-01T12:19:20.218Z


Education Minister Yoav Galant announced today that 79-year-old Zarchi has won the prestigious award. Zarhi to Walla! Culture: "As a person who is not always in the battalions, not always in the consensus. It is very nice to be shared and noticed. It is a victory that they noticed what I did."


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The writer and poet Nurit Zarchi is the bride of the Israel Prize for Literature for the year 5771

Education Minister Yoav Galant announced today that 79-year-old Zarchi has won the prestigious award.

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Culture: "As a person who is not always in the battalions, not always in the consensus. It is very nice to be shared and noticed. It is a victory that they noticed what I did."

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The author and poet Nurit Zarchi (79) is the bride of the Israel Prize in Literature and Poetry for the year 5731, Education Minister Yoav Galant announced today (Monday). In its explanations, the prize committee noted that 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 his own language that is easy to identify.

All of these elements apply to Nurit Zarchi in a huge volume of more than a hundred books, and in literary genres of poetry, fiction, novels, children's literature, essays and articles.



Zarhi told Walla!

Culture: "It's very exciting. I knew I was being served but I did not believe I would win. It's a big surprise and it makes me very happy, as a person who is not always in battalions, not always in consensus. It's very nice to be shared and noticed. It's a victory. "I did. It's a job of many years. I feel a lot, a lot of feelings of gratitude towards these readers. We're drinking champagne now."



Zarhi was born in Jerusalem in 1941. At the age of six, she was orphaned by her father, the writer Israel Zarhi, and moved with her mother and sister to the Geva group.

She has worked as a journalist, as a literary and art critic, as a lecturer in literature and children's literature and as a facilitator of writing workshops.

She was previously married to songwriter and poet Yoram Taharlev, from whom she has two daughters: Roni and Arela.

She has been publishing books for over fifty years.

Over the years, more than 120 of her books have been published - books of poetry, stories, novels, essays, translations and especially children's books.

Her library has been translated into many languages ​​and her poems have been composed and sung by the best performers, including Arik Einstein, Yoni Rechter and Hava Alberstein.

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