Background
She has worked as a presenter in radio and investigated her mother tongue.
(WANDERERS - Again the stairs, again the same sea on the ...)
WANDERERS - Again the stairs, again the same sea on the roof, and the sun goes on breaking, Do not let the terror love you too much. We are wanderers, like some adventurer plants, passing in a place without a name, to the other side of fashioned illusion, There, columns of warmth stand in silence like your mouth in love. Do net let the terror love you too much.
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She has worked as a presenter in radio and investigated her mother tongue.
She studied Hebrew Literature and Philosophy at Bar Ilan University.
She started writing in Hebrew and in 1988 she published Curtijo Quemado (later in Vela de luz) in Ladino, which is a testimony of Nazi destruction. She has been awarded several prizes: the 1994 "Fernando Jeno Award" the international prize for Jewish literature giving by the Jewish community of Mexico. the 1996 "Ateneo de Jaen Award", the international literature prize for poetry in Jaen, Andalucia, Spain. the 1999 Israeli Prime Minister"s Prize for Hebrew Writers the 2003 "Poetry Award" the international prize for poetry given by the "Orient-Occident" Academy of Curtea de Arges, Romania Giusepina Gerometa from University of Udine wrote her Doctor of Philosophy thesis on The poetry of Margalit Matitiahu in 2001–2002. This was the first thesis on contemporary modern Sephardic poetry.
The second thesis (on translation) was written by Sonja Bertok from University of Trieste in 2003–2004.
Production of documentary films: The series of "Sefarad Ways and life" The two films of the series where presented in Israel, Spain, Toronto, Canada, London. The films are: "Leon reencounter" "Toledo the hidden secret" In Hebrew In Ladino.
(WANDERERS - Again the stairs, again the same sea on the ...)
She is a member of the World Academy of Art and Culture (having received a doctorate Honoris Causa), of the Israel Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association club and of the Hebrew Writers Association in Israel.