The Minister of Education, Yoav Galant, announced today (Monday) that the poet and author Nurit Zarchi has won the Bride of Israel Prize in the field of literature and poetry – composers and translators for the year 5731. .
In addition to Prof. Isaacson, the committee also included Professor Tamar Sobran and Professor Hannah Soker Schwager. In its decision, the committee noted that “the main test of excellent literature is its uniqueness and personal stamp, namely the feeling that the creator establishes his own speech, with special characteristics and his own language that is easy to identify. All these elements apply. Fiction, novels, children’s literature, essays and articles. “
In addition, the committee emphasized that “her writing is groundbreaking, personal and dialogical, metaphysical and concrete, Jewish and universal, and reaches the most intimate places in the human psyche.
“More than 40 years of work reach a dominant, independent and original literary expression in contemporary Hebrew literature and justify on every scale the awarding of the Israel Prize to this talented artist,” the committee concluded the selection of Nurit Zarchi.