Diversity of voices, diversity of languages : one week of events and readings in Lyon and in the Rhône-Alpes region.
Ronit Matalon
AUTHOR
Israel
BiographY
Ronit Matalon was born in Israel in 1959, in a family of Egyptian origin. She worked as a journalist for television and the newspaper Haaretz, for which she was the correspondent to Gaza and the West Bank during the first Intifada, then as a literary critic. She teaches comparative and Hebraic literature at the University of Haifa and screenwriting at the prestigious Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, and is a member of the Van Leer Institute’s Forum for Mediterranean Culture. Le bruit de nos pas is her seventh novel, and the first to be translated into French. Born into a family of Egyptian Jews, Ronit Matalon felt there was a gulf between the ancestral books, translated in precious terms, and the Hebrew she heard spoken in daily life. In her work she tries to make the sacred language a living language rather than a museum piece by blending the language of the Scriptures with profane language.
