Poet
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Nurit Zarchi 1941-... country: Israel language: Hebrew |
was born in Jerusalem and grew up in the Kibbutz Geva. She studied literature and philosophy at Tel Aviv University. She has worked as a journalist and, besides two volumes of poetry, has published essays and children’s books, for which she has received important awards. Nurit Zarchi, daughter of a writer and a teacher, was born in Jerusalem in 1941. She was six when her father died and she moved to a kibbutz with her mother. After military service she returned to Jerusalem to study humanities at the Hebrew University. Apart from her literary work, Zarchi has published journalism and essays about literature and art. She now teaches literature and leads workshops in creative writing. In Israel, Nurit Zarchi is known as a writer of children’s books, for which she has received every major literary prize over the years. Her children’s books are characterized by their creative, inventive use of language, their humour, sometimes bordering on the grotesque, and the imaginary reality she creates to raise some well-known, often topical subject. In a sense, the latter also applies to her poetry. Nurit Zarchi’s poems tell a story, or even a fairy tale, in strongly associative language with many layers. The emotional content of words and expressions makes up the outer layer, but underneath the reader finds more. In her poems, too, she creates a world which the reader has to delve into more than once in order to perceive all the different meanings – of the words, the metaphors, the whole poem. It is a poetry that asks to be reread. Author: Shulamith Bamberger Translated by Ko Kooman Poets: |
