Creator Bio
Ronit Matalon
1959–2018
Ronit Matalon was born and raised in Ganei Tikva, Israel. Her short stories were first published in the early 1980s, and her first novel, Sipur shematḥil bilvayah shel naḥash (A Story That Starts with a Snake’s Funeral) was published in 1989 and later filmed. She taught at Haifa University’s department of literature and worked as a political reporter for Haaretz.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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The One Facing Us
He spent much time at the home of Nona Fortuna and Grandpapa Jacquo. After a night on the town, he would fall asleep fully clothed on the couch in their living room, or in Uncle Sicourelle’s bed with…