Dina Rubina

Dina Rubina, 2011

Dina Ilyinichna Rubina (Russian: Дина Ильи́нична Ру́бина; Hebrew: דינה רובינה, born 19 September 1953 in Tashkent) is a Russian-Israeli prose writer.

Biography

Dina Rubina was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She studied music at the Tashkent Conservatory. She published her first story at the age of sixteen in "Yunost." In the mid-1980s, after writing for the stage and screen for several years, she moved to Moscow. In 1990 she immigrated to Israel.[1]

Literary career

Dina Rubina is one of the most prominent Russian-language Israeli writers.[2] Her books have been translated into thirty languages.[3]

Her major themes are theatre, autobiography, and the interplay between the Israeli and Russian Jewish cultures and between Hebrew and Russian.[4]

Dina Rubina in Moscow, 2010

Dual Surname (Двойная фамилия) was turned into a film screened on Russia's Channel One.

In 2007, Rubina won the Russian Bolshaya Kniga literary prize.[5]

Published works

Novels

Short stories

Essays

English translations

See also

References

  1. Russian Literature Online
  2. Anna Wexler Katsnelson, "Belated Zionism: The Cinematographic Exiles of Mikhail Kalik", Jewish Social Studies New Series 14.3, Spring-Summer 2008, pp. 12649, note 24, p. 145: "arguably Israel's best-known author in the Russian language".
  3. Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe: A Guide, edited by Vivian Liska and Thomas Nolden
  4. Anna P. Ronell, "Some Thoughts on Russian-Language Israeli Fiction: Introducing Dina Rubina", Prooftexts 28.2, Spring 2008, pp. 197231.
  5. Jewish Russian Telegraph, A Russian Cultural Patriot, interview by Dmitry Babich

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