Dina Rubina


Dina Ilyinichna Rubina is a Russian-Israeli prose writer.

Biography

Dina Rubina was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She studied music at the Tashkent Conservatory. She published her first story at the age of sixteen in "Yunost." In the mid-1980s, after writing for the stage and screen for several years, she moved to Moscow. In 1990 she immigrated to Israel.

Literary career

Dina Rubina is one of the most prominent Russian-language Israeli writers. Her books have been translated into thirty languages.
Her major themes are Jewish and Israeli history, migration, nomadism and neo-indigeneity, messianism and metaphysics, theatre, autobiography, and the interplay between the Israeli and Russian Jewish cultures and between Hebrew and Russian.
Dual Surname was turned into a film screened on Russia's Channel One.
In 2007, Rubina won the Russian Big Book literary award.

Published works

Novels