Gabriela Avigur-Rotem

Gabriela Avigur-Rotem
גבריאלה אביגור-רותם
Born1946 (age 78–79)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alma materTel Aviv University
OccupationNovelist[1]: 68 
Years active1980–present
Employers

Gabriela Avigur-Rotem (Hebrew: גבריאלה אביגור-רותם; born 1946) is an Israeli–Argentinean[2]: 48  novelist.

Early and personal life

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1946, Avigur-Rotem moved to Israel in 1950.[3] She is Jewish.[4] Avigur-Rotem studied Hebrew and English literature at Tel Aviv University.[5]

Career

Avigur-Rotem released her debut poetry collection in 1980, followed by her first novel in 1992. Over the years, she has received numerous honours, including the Anna Rabinowitz Prize for Poetry (1990) and the Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works on two occasions (1992 and 2001). Her novel Heatwave and Crazy Birds (2001) earned both the Goldberg Prize and Keshet Media Group's Gold and Platinum Book Prizes, while later recognition included the Women's International Zionist Organization (2006) and the Geffen Award for Every Story Is a Sudden Cat (2014). She hosts writing workshops at the University of Haifa and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and also edits works for Haifa University Publishing House.[3] She is known for writing exclusively in Hebrew. Author Risa Domb praised Avigur-Rotem's analysis of linguistic changes in the language throughout Israel's existence.[6]: 127 

References

  1. ^ Murata, Yasuko (1996). "Translation as a Spiritual Community". TradTerm. 3: 67–85.
  2. ^ Ran, Amalia (2009). "" Mi Condición de Sirena ": The Diasporas of Gabriela Avigur-Rotem and Alicia Dujovne Ortiz". Modern Jewish Studies: 42–58. Archived from the original on 19 July 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2025.
  3. ^ a b "Gabriela Avigur-Rotem". The Israeli Institute of Hebrew Literature. Archived from the original on 22 April 2024. Retrieved 15 September 2025.
  4. ^ Meter, Alejandro (2008). "Books and Bombs in Buenos Aires: Borges, Gerchunoff and Argentine-Jewish Writing". Chasqui. 37 (2): 156–157. Retrieved 16 September 2025.
  5. ^ "גבריאלה אביגור-רותם" [Gabriela Avigur-Rotem]. Simania (in Hebrew). Archived from the original on 7 September 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2025.
  6. ^ Domb, Risa (2007). "Review". Israel Studies Forum. 22 (2). Berghahn Books: 125–129. ISSN 1557-2455. JSTOR 41804987. Retrieved 16 September 2025.
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