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Tirtza Atar (, also Tirza Atar; birth name: Tirtza Alterman) (January 27, 1941–September 8, 1977) was an Israeli poet, songwriter, playwright, actress, and translator.Tirtza Atar תרצה אתר
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/ref> She was born in
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 ...
to the family of the Israeli poet and journalist
Nathan Alterman Nathan Alterman (; August 14, 1910 – March 28, 1970) was an Israeli poet, playwright, journalist, and translator. Though never holding any elected office, Alterman was highly influential in Labor Zionist politics, both before and after the es ...
and theater actress Rachel Marcus. She died after falling out of a window of her home. The official investigation concluded that she became dizzy and lost her balance while leaning outside over a low windowsill to talk to the workers who were noisy.


Works


Prize winners

Her children's book ''Ya'el Takes a Walk'', which Atar wrote for her daughter Ya'el (, 1971) received the 1973 for children's and youth literature. A story from the book, ' (''Ha'aryeh she'ahav tot''), was republished in 2003 and was a national bestseller for 116 weeks. In 1970 her song "Pit'om Achshav, Pit'om HaYom" , a song about a young man in love, performed by
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, was the winner of the
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In 1970 her song ("Ani Cholem al Naomi") sung by the duo
Hedva and David Hedva and David was an Israeli singing duo, comprising and . In 1970, the duo won first place at the Yamaha Song Festival in Tokyo, Japan, with the song "" (אני חולם על נעמי "Ani Cholem Al Naomi"), lyrics: Tirtza Atar, music: . T ...
won the first place at the Yamaha Song Festival Tokyo, Japan.חדווז ודוד י חולמים על נעמי
''
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'', December 11, 1970
Its Japanese version ナオミの夢 "Naomi no Yume" was sold between one and three million copies, becoming the
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. It was placed second on the 1971 Israeli Annual Hebrew Song Chart.


Other

She translated over 30 plays from English to Hebrew. The complete list of her works may be found at her webpage of ''The New Hebrew Literature Lexicon''


About

*In 2015 produced a documentary , which won the yury award at the 2015
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. *, Tirza Atar: Wenn alles berührt. Eine Biografie der Dichterin in Essays und Übersetzungen, Edition Karo, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-945961-09-4


See also

* Songs written by Tirza Atar at
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References

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