Ida fink biography

Nationality: Israeli (originally Polish: immigrated to Israel, 1957). Born: Zbaraż, 11 January 1921. Education: Studied music at a conservatory in Lvov, 1938-41. Married: Bruno Fink in 1948; one daughter.

Ida fink a spring morning

Career: Documentary work, Yad Vashem Institute, Tel-Aviv; music librarian, Goethe Institute, Tel-Aviv, 1972-83. Since 1983 freelance writer in Holon. Awards:Anne Frank prize in literature, 1985, and PEN/Bookof-the-Month Club translation prize, for Skrawek czasu; Jacob Buchman memorial prize, Yad Vashem, 1995.

Publications

Short Stories

Skrawek czasu. 1983; as A Scrap of Time and Other Stories, 1987; revised edition, 1995.

Slady. 1996; as Traces, 1997.

Novel

Podróż. 1990; as The Journey, 1992.

Critical Study:

"Trusting the Words: Paradoxes of Ida Fink" by Marek Wilczynski, in Modern Language Studies, 24(4), 1994, pp.

25-38.

Born in Zbaraż, Poland, in 1921, a survivor of what a character in one of her stories calls "the Hitler ti