Ayin Tur-Malka

Ayin Tur-Malka (pen name of Aliza Grinberg; born Aliza Gurevich) was raised in Jerusalem and published her first poems at the age of sixteen. Tur-Malka was a member of the Leḥi militant group. In 1950, she married the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg and took on her pen name. After her husband’s death in 1981, Tur-Malka studied Jewish philosophy at Tel Aviv University. Since then, she has been engaged in publishing Greenberg’s complete works, as well as her own poetry. In 2014, she was awarded the Levi Eshkol prize for Hebrew poets.