Writing a novel is like a long journey: sometimes there are delays, deviations, and departures from the path. Translating a poem can therefore offer a helpful respite: someone greater than you takes you by the hand and leads the way.
In addition to authoring prose and translating poetry, I have enjoyed the opportunity to accompany various people along their personal journey of writing memoirs. I dedicate myself to this process, entering the storyteller’s inner soul, in the manner that a writer needs to familiarize herself with all her characters, to gain a full understanding of their stories.
My narrators open their hearts to me, and it is through this funnel that their stories pour out to the readers, in a way that is rich, genuine, accurate, and remarkably powerful.
Writing a novel is like a long journey: sometimes there are delays, deviations, and departures from the path. Translating a poem can therefore offer a helpful respite: someone greater than you takes you by the hand and leads the way.
In addition to authoring prose and translating poetry, I have enjoyed the opportunity to accompany various people along their personal journey of writing memoirs. I dedicate myself to this process, entering the storyteller’s inner soul, in the manner that a writer needs to familiarize herself with all her characters, to gain a full understanding of their stories.
My narrators open their hearts to me, and it is through this funnel that their stories pour out to the readers, in a way that is rich, genuine, accurate, and remarkably powerful.
Mirie Litvak holds a first degree in Theatre Arts from Tel Aviv University and a second degree from Sorbonne University in Paris. Her book Russian Women Sleep Naked, published by the Hakibbutz Hameuchad – Sifriat Poalim publishing house, is a critical and bitingly humorous description of a young female immigrant’s experience in the rough Israeli reality. In her book Sun Behind You, published by the Hakibbutz Hameuchad’s Kivsa Shechora (Black Sheep) series, the protagonist flits from man to man, and from country to country. Litvak’s book Longing for the Dark is also a Black Sheep series publication. Here, the writer employs witty, poetic, and definitive prose to observe two stories as two reflections, using an accurate and fascinating lens to follow the physical and emotional changes that the characters experience. Onegin’s Love for Grandma Clara, published by the Carmel publishing house, weaves Litvak’s family history against a historical backdrop of both the Former Soviet Union and Israel.
Mirie Litvak is also an experienced translator of poetry and prose. Among the authors whose work she has translated are Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, Alexander Blok, Anton Chekhov, Honoré de Balzac, and Yevgeny Zamyatin, as well as the letters of Chaim Weizmann, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, and others.
She is the recipient of the Prime Minister’s prize.
The writer owns the Mirie Litvak – Memoir Writer publishing house for publishing biographies and life stories. She has written dozens of books, based on interviews and documentary materials, including many accounts of Holocaust survivors.
Mirie Litvak, a native of Russia, a graduate of the theater department at the Sorbonne, writes Hebrew which is rich, emotive and exact, not “a virtuosity on crutches.” Her short story collection, Russian Women Sleep Naked, (Sifriat HaPoalim) and her novels, Sun Behind You, and Longing for the Dark (HaKibbutz HaMeuchad). While bearing the welcome influences of the great Russian and French literatures, they are Israeli and above all personal. Particularly powerful are her writings on the relationships between women and men; they are sensitive, accurate, and so rich in variation that wondrously the body becomes something beyond body without losing its physicality. For all this, the judges decided to award Mirie Litvak the Prime Minister’s Prize for Literature for 2006.
Mirie Litvak is an Israeli writer, translator, and commissioned memoir writer. Born in Perm, in the Urals. Writes in Hebrew. She immigrated to Israel as a teenager. After serving in the Israeli army, she studied at the theater department of Tel Aviv University, and then in France. Master of Theater Studies, Sorbonne, Paris.
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