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Linor Goralik

Linor Goralik is an Israeli writer, poet, essayist and artist who writes mainly in Russian and founded the online publication ROAR in 2022.

born 1975Russian-language poetry and proseFounding ROARTranslating Etgar Keret into RussianWriting on fashion theory

Born: 9 July 1975, Dnipro
Occupation: writer, essayist, prose writer, poet
Founded: ROAR: Resistance and Opposition Arts Review (2022)

Linor Goralik was born in 1975 in Dnipro

Goralik was born on 9 July 1975 to a Jewish family in Dnipropetrovsk, in Soviet Ukraine. Her family moved to Israel in 1989.

She studied computer science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev from 1991 to 1994. She then worked as a programmer and in marketing. Her first poetry book came out in 1999.

She lived in Moscow from 2000 to 2014 and worked as a journalist and marketing analyst. She translated the works of Etgar Keret into Russian and organized exhibitions of Israeli culture. She also taught marketing and fashion theory and wrote on contemporary costume.

In 2006 she created a comic series about a hare. She returned to Israel in 2014 and lives in Ramat Gan. She opposes the Putin government and the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and in 2023 Russia added her to its list of foreign agents.

In 2022 she founded ROAR, an online review of political art and writing. After October 7 she began a bilingual book of 251 poems about the hostages. She is married to Vladimir Ermilov.