Lizzie Doron (; born 1953) is an Israeli author.

Biography

Her mother was a German

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survivor. Doron was born in Israel and served in the

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. She also lived on a

kibbutz A kibbutz ( / , ; : kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1910, was Degania Alef, Degania. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economi ...

. She eventually moved to

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( or , ; ), sometimes rendered as Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a popula ...

. One of her children now lives in Germany. Doron formerly worked as a linguist at the

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. In the fall term of 2019 she was the twelfth Friedrich Dürrenmatt Guest Professor for World Literature at the

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. Doron writes about her family history, personal experiences and the

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. Her book, "Peaceful Times", is about a woman living in Tel Aviv who forgets her childhood in

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. Doron has also written about her changing views of the country.

Positions

Doron said in a 2005 interview that she does not believe that the

Arabs Arabs (, , ; , , ) are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa. A significant Arab diaspora is present in various parts of the world. Arabs have been in the Fertile Crescent for thousands of yea ...

are Israel's main problem. One of her worries is the growing weight of religion in Israeli society. All this makes her pessimistic about the future, which has to be approached with radical openness and more detached from the traumas of the past.

Awards and recognition

Other than in Germany and Switzerland, as of 2008, Doron's recognition in Israel had still been modest. * Buchman Prize by

Yad Vashem Yad Vashem (; ) is Israel's official memorial institution to the victims of Holocaust, the Holocaust known in Hebrew language, Hebrew as the (). It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Jews who were murdered; echoing the stories of the ...

Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority (2003) *Jeanette Schocken Prize –

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Citizens' Prize for Literature for her entire oeuvre (2007) *Her book ''Once There Was A Family'' was chosen among the 30 best books of 2007 by the Swiss newspaper Neue Zurcher Zeitung * for literature, awarded by the Municipality of

Holon Holon (, ) is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel, located south of Tel Aviv. Holon is part of the Gush Dan, Gush Dan metropolitan area. In , it had a population of , making it the List of cities in Israel, tenth most populous city in Isra ...

(2010)

References

1953 births Living people Israeli women writers Israeli women novelists Israeli people of German-Jewish descent Israeli female military personnel {{Israel-writer-stub