Leenor Goralik: biography and creativity

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The emotional and intense works of Linor Goralik are vivid and convincing pictures of a person's spiritual life. The heroes of her novels are in the grip of all-consuming feelings, recognizable against the background of everyday realities.

Biography

Leenor Goralik was born in Dnepropetrovsk in 1975. At the age of eleven, she chose the name Linor for herself and received a passport with a new name. In 1989 the family moved to Israel. Linor, without graduating from school, entered Ben-Gurion University in 1990, she was fond of mathematics from the age of 10, so there was no question of choosing a profession - she began to study as a programmer.

Immediately began to earn extra money by teaching - preparing for exams at universities in Israel. A little later, in order to pay for her studies, she took up programming. In 1994, she left the university, her education remained incomplete, but she began to work in her speci alty.

In the early 2000s, Linor Goralik moved to Moscow and worked as a business consultant. Collaborates with various publications, her articles were published in the magazines "Ezh", "Russian Journal", in the newspapers "Vedomosti", "Nezavisimaya Gazeta", "Frontiers", on "Radio Russia" ledbroadcast about books, writes a column on Snob. The Eshkol project representing the culture of Israel, where various events are regularly held, has become the main one for her.

Be a writer

The first literary experiences of the Israeli writer Linor Goralik represent individual phrases, fragments of everyday speech, observations that she saved in writing. With the development of the Internet, Lenore's recordings have spread across the Web. Creating the first texts, Linor discovered that during the time spent in Israel, the language environment in Russia has undergone changes. And she plunged into it, fixing the smallest facts of communication.

The writer is sure whether the blog turns into a book or not. It is important that a person can read what he is looking for, and any meeting between a writer and a reader is wonderful - both paper books and texts on the Internet. Linor adheres to the theory that there is no text "online" or "offline", it is bad or good. Likewise, “writing lyrics” and “being a writer” are completely different things.

Literary activity

Linor Goralik became seriously interested in texts and poems at the age of 25. As the writer herself says, her first texts are “absolutely monstrous” - what she “wrote out” at 25, many of her colleagues - at 14-17. Next to her were people who were ready to help: they pointed out mistakes, suggested what literature to read. She is still interested in the work of Pashchenko, Kukulin, Fanailova, Lvovsky, Dashevsky, Zhadan.

Goralik -successful translator from Hebrew. Thanks to her, many learned about the Israeli writer E Keret. Linor translated the books “Seven Fat Years” and “Azem”, worked on the collections “Days Like Today” and “When the Buses Died”. Linor is the head of several commercial and charitable projects in the field of culture. In 2003, she became the winner of the Triumph Prize, which was once received by K. Raikin, M. Pletnev, O. Yankovsky and others.

Features of works

The works of Linor Goralik are distinguished by their emotionality, tense intonation and fragmentation, typical of oral speech. These qualities are clearly expressed in short prose: sketches, stories, monologues. Her books are vivid spiritual pictures of the human soul, recognizable by readers against the backdrop of everyday realities. They, like all of us, are in the grip of all-consuming feelings: love and hate, happiness and heartache, despair and joy. The writer has released several collections of poetry and prose:

• 2003 - "Not local";
• 2004 - “Speaks”;
• 2004 - “Not Children's Food”;
• 2007 - “Hook, Petrusha”;
• 2008 - “Shorter”;
• 2011 - “Oral folk art of the inhabitants of sector M1”.

Other works

In 2004, the novel “No” saw the light, written in collaboration with S. Kuznetsov, and in the same year they published “Half of the Sky” with S. Lvovsky. She wrote the story "Valery", which was published in 2011; in 2007 and 2008, readers got acquainted with the tales of Linor Goralik “Martincries” and “Agatha comes home”. Lenore is the creator of the HRC Hare comic series, the Hollow Woman study, and the author of several articles on fashion and popular culture.

Co-authored novels

The work “Half of the Sky” was written in collaboration with S. Lvovsky, tells about the meeting of two people after a long separation. The novel is divided into two voices - male and female. Due to the fact that two authors wrote it, one can feel the independence of the voice of each of the characters - Mark and Masha. This is a love story of pioneers-excellent students from the 70s. They are the last generation of “Soviet” children, and they remember the pioneer tie, the death of Brezhnev, discos, Chernobyl, the film “Guest from the Future”.

The novel “No” was written together with Sergey Kuznetsov. As Linor Goralik says, she originally planned to write a porn novel, but it turned out to be a sentimental, sometimes tender, sometimes scary book. The author's duet throws down a bold challenge to modern society and raises the most acute problems: sexual perversions and minorities, political correctness. The book is, of course, about love, but in a world where pornography is the most important of the arts, feelings and emotions are just a hot commodity.

In The Book of Loneliness, the authors L. Goralik and M. Fry raise the theme of loneliness. For some it is painful and painful, for others it is a blessing. The collection consists mainly of Fry's autobiographical essays built on Goralik's story. The book is about ordinary people: sad and cheerful, sincere and not so, purposeful and burning life senselessly. In spite ofthe underlying meaning is an easy, sincere book about people, different, real.

In their reviews, readers write that it is better for ardent aesthetes and opponents of profanity to stay away from the books of Linor Goralik. For the rest, her works are islands of freedom and looseness. The author so tangibly conveys the most terrible, most tender, simplest emotions and movements of the souls of the characters that you involuntarily begin to feel your wrists. Her books are a friend, a little cynical and sharp-tongued, telling about life and death, about meetings and partings, about love and hate, and opening eyes to modern realities.