Dina Rubina is an Israeli and Russian prose writer and film scriptwriter, a member of the Union of Writers of the Uzbek SSR, the Union of Writers of the USSR, the international PEN Club and the Union of Russian-language Writers of Israel, winner of awards from the Ministry of Culture of Uzbekistan, named after. Arie Dulchin, Israel Writers Union, “ Big Book», Charitable Foundation Oleg Tabakov, “Portal”.
Dina Ilyinichna Rubina was born on September 19, 1953 in Tashkent in the family of a Kharkov artist and a Poltava history teacher. The parents gave the girl a name in honor of the American film actress, Hollywood star of the 1940s Deanna Durbin.
Dina Rubina received her secondary education at a specialized music school at the Tashkent Conservatory. Later, memories of this period of life appeared in her collection “Music Lessons.” Having received the certificate, Dina applied to the Tashkent Conservatory, from which she graduated in 1977. Then she worked as a teacher at the Institute of Culture in Tashkent. Much of her life was connected with this city, which is why she often returned to its familiar atmosphere in her novels, especially in On the Sunny Side of the Street.
Dina Rubina: writing
Hone writing skills Dina Rubina started at a fairly early age. While still just a girl, she was already published in the magazine “Youth”. When Dina turned seventeen, her story “Restless Nature” was included in the “Green Briefcase” section of the magazine.
But the story “When Will It Snow?”, published in 1977, gave her real popularity. In the center of its plot is the life of one girl who fell in love for the first time before a deadly operation. She later wrote scripts for films, plays, and television and radio plays.
Dina Rubina moved to Moscow after filming the film “Our Grandson Works in the Police” based on her story “Tomorrow, as usual,” which took place in 1984. The film did not become a masterpiece, but upon arrival in the capital the writer created one of her own best works"The camera zooms in." And then life connected her with the metropolis until 1990 - before leaving for Israel, where she took root and continued to develop as a writer: she worked as a literary editor in the weekly literary supplement “Friday” for the Russian-language newspaper “Our Country”. And she still lives in this country - in the city of Mevaseret Zion.
It was after such a decisive life step as emigration from Soviet Union, Russian magazines began to pay attention to the works of Dina Rubina “ New world", "Banner" and "Friendship of Peoples". It was after this that she had the opportunity to visit Moscow from 2001 to 2003 as the head of cultural programs of the Jewish Agency.
Many of Dina Rubina’s works became bestsellers in different countries and were translated into several dozen languages. Among them:
- "On the sunny side of the street";
- "Sunday Mass in Toledo";
- « White dove Cordoba";
- “When will it snow?”
The works of Dina Rubina can be read on liters online or downloaded in fb2, txt, epub, pdf formats. Their main feature- colorful language bright characters, a rough sense of humor, adventurous plots and accessible descriptions of difficult moments. According to critics, Dina Rubina is an author for intelligent girls.
Biography
Born on September 19, 1953 in Tashkent in the family of artist Ilya Davidovich Rubin and history teacher Rita Aleksandrovna Rubina.
Graduated from specialized music school at the Tashkent Conservatory. Impressions from the “musical play” were included in the collection of stories and short stories “Music Lessons”.
In 1977, Rubina graduated from the Tashkent Conservatory and taught at the Institute of Culture in Tashkent.
Dina Rubina’s first youthful works were published in the pages of the magazine “Youth”. Dina Rubina’s literary fame came from the publication in 1977 of the story “When Will It Snow?..”. In it, a girl meets her love on the eve of death dangerous operation. A film was made based on this work, a television and radio play was staged, and a play was written, which was performed on the stage of the Moscow Youth Theater for many years. That same year, at the age of 24, she became a member of the Writers' Union of the UzSSR - at that time the youngest member in the country similar organizations. In 1979 she became a member of the USSR SP.
On the set of the film based on the story “Tomorrow, as usual,” the writer met her second husband and went with him to Moscow. The film turned out to be unsuccessful, but after it Dina Rubina wrote one of her best works, “The Camera Rolls In.” The writer lived and worked in Moscow before leaving for permanent place residence in Israel at the end of 1990.
After moving to Israel, she worked as a literary editor in the weekly literary supplement “Friday” for the Russian-language newspaper “Our Country”.
During these years, Russian magazines “New World”, “Znamya”, “Friendship of Peoples” began to publish Rubina’s works.
In 2001-2003 she worked in Moscow as the head of cultural programs of the Jewish Agency (Sokhnut).
In 2013, she created three versions of the “Total Dictation” as part of an annual educational event aimed at developing a culture of competent writing among Russian citizens.
Lives with his family in the suburbs of Jerusalem - in the town of Maale Adumim.
Family
Son Dmitry (from his first marriage).
The second husband is the artist Boris Karafelov, a regular illustrator of her works.
Daughter: Eva Gassner.
Do you know that
Dina Rubina was named after Dina Durbin, an American film actress and Hollywood star of the 1940s.
The plot and life of the heroes of her novel “On the Sunny Side of the Street” are closely connected with Tashkent of the 40s - 60s of the XX century.
The story "Gypsy" is based on a real family history writers.
The prototype of the heroine of the story “On Verkhnyaya Maslovka” was the sculptor Nina Ilyinichna Niss-Goldman.
Bibliography
Novels
2009 White Dove of Cordoba
2008 Leonardo's handwriting
2006 On the sunny side of the street
2004 Our Chinese business
2004 Syndicate
2001 On Verkhnyaya Maslovka
1998 The Last Boar of the Woods of Pontevedra
1996 Here comes the Messiah!
Tale, short stories, short stories
2012 Windows
2010 Lyubka
2010 Parsley syndrome
2010 Adam and Miriam
2009 Porcelain ideas
2008 The camera zooms in!
2008 Hand luggage
2008 Other people's entrances
2008 Finger Fluency School
2008 ...Their bin is nervous!
2008 Me and you under peach clouds...
2008 View from the window of a rented apartment
2008 Master Tarabuka
2008 Jerusalem Syndrome
2007 The surface of the lake in a cloudy haze
2007 You have to live long in Russia
2007 Old stories of love
2007 Migratory viola
2006 Gypsy
2005 Cold spring in Provence
2003 A Few Hasty Words of Love
2002 At your gates
2002 Hero's eyes close up
2000 When it snows
1999 Astral flight of the soul in a physics lesson
1999 High Water of the Venetians
1997 Escort Angel
1996 Music Lessons
1994 One intellectual sat down on the road
1990 Double surname
1987 Open the window!
1982 House behind the green gate
1980 When will it snow...?
Essay
2008 It only hurts when I laugh
2002 Sunday Mass in Toledo
2001 What to do?
1999 Under the sign of carnival
Film adaptations
2015 Parsley syndrome
2011 On the sunny side of the street (TV series)
2009 Lyubka (TV)
2006 Double surname
2004 On Verkhnyaya Maslovka
1984 Our grandson works in the police
Awards and prizes
2009 Portal Award, best fantastic work(large form) for the novel “Leonardo’s Handwriting”.
2008 Prize from the Oleg Tabakov Charitable Foundation for the story “Adam and Miryam”, published in the magazine “Friendship of Peoples”, No. 7, 2007.
2007 Russian Prize"Big Book" for the novel "On the Sunny Side of the Street".
1995 Israel Writers Union Prize for the novel “Here Comes the Messiah!”
1990 Prize named after. Arie Dulchina (Israel) for the book “One intellectual sat down on the road.”
1982 Prize from the Ministry of Culture of Uzbekistan for the play “Wonderful Doira” for the musical comedy theater, written by her together with the poet Rudolf Barinsky in the late 70s of the 20th century in Tashkent, based on Uzbek folk tales.
This talented woman given an amazing ability to masterfully master the word, not letting go of the reader’s attention until the last page. She's been since the nineties last century has popular recognition and respect for the worldly wisdom embodied in her works of art. Nowadays, the famous writer Dina Rubina lives in Israel, writes in Russian, continuing to discover valuable secrets of existence for readers and comprehend the depth of human relationships. Fans continue to look forward to each creation of the master, which has a witty style and vivid images.
IsraLove chose Interesting Facts about the life and work of Dina Rubina
1. Dina was born in September 1953 in the capital of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, in the family of Kharkov resident Ilya Davidovich Rubin and Poltava resident Rita Aleksandrovna Zhukovskaya. My father came to my parents after demobilization from the front. At the age of 17, my mother was evacuated to Tashkent from Poltava. The meeting of parents took place in art school, where Ilya Rubin was a student, and Rita Aleksandrovna was a history teacher. The young lieutenant, who dreamed of becoming an artist, immediately drew attention to his peer - a young beautiful teacher.
2. As for Dina Rubina’s more distant relatives, the writer herself believes that they were typical Ukrainian Jews who were engaged in trade, studied a little and taught others. The maternal great-grandfather, according to the recollections of relatives, was a respected, deeply religious, witty person. But my father’s ancestor, a Warsaw cab driver, was distinguished by unbridled rage. Dina Ilyinichna believes that her temper comes from him.
3. Dina spent her childhood and subsequent young years in a small apartment. The domestic, physical, situational cramped conditions that reigned in it literally put pressure on a growing person. Rubina later wrote about this in the story “The Camera is Rolling In!” In addition, the girl studied music intensively, attending a school for gifted children at the conservatory. The writer in her autobiography recalls herself as a pitiful creature with square cheekbones, defenseless eyes, oppressed by the service of art, and calls the school itself “elite hard labor.” All this is reflected in the story “Music Lessons”.
4. IN adolescence Dina often had visions. She often fell into prostration, accompanied by unsolicited meditations. Rubina described a case when, during a physics lesson, she flew out of the window and circled over the sports ground. The writer talked about sweet numbness, looking at herself from the inside, sheaves of emerald-orange sparks in front of eyes closed.
5. Dina Rubina’s first prose creation was published when the author was only 16. This ironic story entitled “Restless Nature” was published in the magazine “Youth” in the “Green Briefcase” section. Later, the writer became a permanent contributor to the prose department and published there until she left the USSR. True, her best creations were not accepted there, but those that were published were remembered and loved by readers.
6. My literary activity in Tashkent, Rubina recalled with humor. In order to earn money, she translated the works of Uzbek writers into Russian. And for translating national fairy tales she was even awarded a prize from the Republican Ministry of Culture, although the writer herself considered it “outright hackwork.” She also did not like the play “Wonderful Doira”, which was written specifically for production at the local musical theater. However, thanks to this work, Rubina solved her personal problems. She bought a one-room cooperative apartment, where she was able to move with her young son after divorcing her husband.
7. In 1977, the poignant story “When Will It Snow?” was published. about the life of 15-year-old Nina, suffering from a serious illness. Fresh snow for her is a symbol of renewal. The television version of the play, staged by the Moscow Youth Theater, brought the writer great popularity. A radio show was created based on this work, which was loved by listeners. True, the writer herself is convinced that her prose is difficult to play, because it has a pronounced author’s intonation, which cannot be fully transferred either to the stage or to the screen.
8. The Uzbekfilm film based on Dina Rubina’s story “Tomorrow, as usual” entitled “Our grandson works in the police” was unsuccessful. However, it was on the set of this film that she met the artist Boris Karafelov, who became her second husband and the father of her daughter Eva. She moved to live with him in Moscow. There Dina again had to plunge into the cramped space she so disliked, in which the family lived until leaving for Israel. In the capital she became, as they say, freelance artist with a wide circle of acquaintances in creative environment.
9. The end of 1990 turned out to be a personal, biographical and creative milestone for the writer. She, along with her family, husband, children, parents, moved to Israel for permanent residence. There she worked in the Russian-language newspaper “Our Country”, wrote a lot, lived in the “occupied territories”, served a little, and sometimes came under fire. At this time, reputable Soviet magazines “Friendship of Peoples”, “Znamya”, “New World” began to publish small works Rubina.
10. In 1996, a novel was created about the fate of Russian emigrants who left for the Promised Land. With sad humor, she described the circumstances of life of her former compatriots in their new homeland. For the work “Here comes the Messiah!” received the Israel Writers Union Prize.
11. One of the creator’s most popular books is “Leonardo’s Handwriting,” which tells the story of a young woman, Anna, who has a prophetic gift. The heroine, as part of a circus troupe, travels around the world and predicts destinies. Life is difficult for her, because Anna can only watch the fulfillment of difficult predictions.
12. Her 2009 creation called “The White Dove of Cordoba” also attracted increased attention from readers. At the center of the novel is the artist Zakhar Cordovin, who lives two lives. In one of them he is a respected teacher and expert, and in the other he forges paintings by famous masters.
12. At the age of 52, she got behind the wheel when her aging parents needed constant help. I quickly got my license at such an advanced age. Dina Ilyinichna explains this by the fact that, as a former pianist, she has excellent coordination between her legs and arms. In stressful moments while driving, she even swears to escape her heartbreak.
13. The writer is still actively engaged in creativity. In 2017, the Eksmo publishing house published her new book, “The Indian Wind,” where events are told from the perspective of a cosmetologist who emigrated from Russia to the United States. The novel received mixed reviews.
14. Despite a prosperous life in which there are children, parents, friends, a beloved husband, the writer believes that creative person doomed to loneliness. After all, his inner world literally overpopulate different lives. The main thing, in her opinion, for a creator is a sheet of paper, where all deep-seated personal problems are digested and resolved.
On the Domashny TV channel often the movie is on"Lyubka" by story of the same name Dina Rubina. IN leading role an actress with a gift for deep psychologism.
Fate brings two girls together at the very beginning of their lives. Seven-year-old Lyubka, growing up among street thieves, distracts the attention of a rich family at the station, and at that moment their suitcase is stolen. Years have passed, and they meet again in a distant Ural town... Lyubka grew up among street thieves. She never had any friends or loved ones. Only once did she experience something resembling mutual understanding, when she first saw her peer Ira surrounded by loving parents. But life, full of unpredictability, divorced the girls. Years have passed. Irina, with a doctor’s diploma, was assigned to a Ural town. She is looking for a nanny for her daughter. But in a small town, mostly civilians and former prisoners live. Lyubka, who served her time, also lives here. Irina makes a firm decision - it is Lyuba who will be her Sonechka’s teacher...
Dina Rubina is one of the most popular writers of our time
Each new work Dina Rubina is a long-awaited sensation that fans are looking forward to. Published books immediately take first place on the bestseller list. On her next visit to Russia (Dina Rubina has been living in Israel since the late 90s), the writer presented new book"Window". This is her joint project with her husband, an artist. Boris Karafelov.
Working together requires a degree of intimacy between people that is not immediately and not given to everyone. Was the path to the joint project long?
We never worked “together.” Besides that collaboration even in one type of art is an extremely rare thing (successful co-authors can be counted on one hand), we must not forget that Boris and I work in different types creativity. This - different materials, a different view of objects and images, and a different “inside” of the artist. Those few of my books where there are drawings by Boris or reproductions of his paintings are not at all “ joint projects" Rather, this is Boris’s reaction to some of my already written texts. Moreover, as an artist he is so self-sufficient that he can easily do without any support in the form of my ideas or texts in his work. It’s me, on the contrary, who is looking for some parallels with me. So, about seven years ago we published the book “Cold Spring in Provence”, which contains 16 works by Boris - oil, watercolors, gouache... But this “merger” happened because I decided to collect the creative result of our joint travels under one cover. That’s how the book “Windows” came about. I was writing short stories, where I decided to place a window in each one, and I accidentally discovered that Boris’s paintings also have a lot of windows. That’s when I was “pecked” in the crown. And, it seems, it took the bait quite productively.
Every time she comes to Russia, Dina Rubina presents her fans with a new work
When you moved to Israel, not everything was easy right away; you and your husband had to take on any job. Have you ever had emotional breakdowns? And how often did you have to forgive each other during this period?
It was, of course, not easy. And there were breakdowns, and despair, and euphoria - everything took its course. Nowadays, so much has been written about emigration and the stress that it brings with it – even the most prosperous emigration. But for us it was very complicated: a writer and an artist in a country of a different language and different traditions, and a tiny daughter, and a teenage son... And nothing in our pockets: we left everything we had acquired in Russia. I have written about this many times. Sometimes I can’t even believe that this happened to us. And here we are not talking about “forgiving each other” - somehow from the very beginning of our family life there was no question of someone’s guilt in a variety of situations... It’s just that we immediately felt that only by clinging to each other, we can survive.
There is an opinion that many marriages in exile fall apart, and those spouses who escaped this remain together forever. Do you agree?
You know, I have seen so many things over these more than 20 years that I completely reject everything that is “commonly believed.” Human destiny, character and life attitudes are so individual. Love, marriage, fidelity, despair, betrayal - all these feelings and qualities are found in such, sometimes, strange situations and cases that there are no laws. And it would probably be strange if there were. I have also known marriages that survived during a period of terrible difficulties, but fell apart in complete prosperity. I also knew those who broke up immediately upon arrival, and then, fifteen years later, suddenly found each other again... Life, thank God, is inexhaustible. And man is inexhaustible too.
What is the key to a strong marriage?
Don't know. Marriage is a very complex organism. It is believed that some family psychologists can help with this. And I would even believe it if I had not witnessed the breakdown of marriages from these same psychologists. Let us finally consider marriage a great secret behind seven seals, and let us not look for pledges and pretexts in it. Let's just admire successful couples and be sad when they break up and break up.
You and your husband both creative personalities with varying degrees of fame and likely income. Is there any envy, rivalry or competition between you?
This topic is completely undiscussable in the family. We just had periods in our lives when I earned pennies in a local newspaper, and Boris’s paintings sold well (at that time he collaborated with a famous Chicago gallery). And it happened that I didn’t work at all, and suddenly some collector would buy so many paintings from him that it was enough for the family to live for six months. It also happened differently. After all, I have only been cooperating with the EKSMO publishing house, which pays me honestly and nobly, for the last 8 years. Before that, she made her living by traveling and performing around different countries. Did you happen to mistake me for a millionaire?
How is your life organized? Do you run the house yourself or do you have an assistant?
There is an assistant, she comes once a week, very nice man. But I clean, I cook, I do everything that a wife and mother of a family is supposed to do. I’m generally a seven-core person, and by nature I love order, a stable and reliable way of life, I love my long-term habits, I get irritated when a cup is put in the wrong place, or someone sits on my chair... just like that bear from a fairy tale...
Is everyday life a problem for you?
This is home, habits, family life. I am extremely conservative in matters of family - it runs in the family. But if you mean - can I, instead of cooking dinner, buy and cook dumplings and will I consider this a universal catastrophe? I may or may not.
In Russia, Dina Ilyinichna’s days are planned minute by minute - meetings with readers, endless interviews...
You have been married for many years, you have adult children. Has your opinion of what marriage is changed over the years? What did you think about him when you first got married, and what do you think now?
You see, it is quite difficult (if not stupid) for a writer to begin to remember and formulate some of his attitudes from forty years ago. We, the writing people, give out all our thoughts and attitudes, as they say, in real time while writing the next thing. You can just read mine early stories and a story to understand what I thought and felt then. And it would be strange if a person did not change throughout his life. Remembering that I once thought about something... is not at all interesting to me now. She was young, stupid, thought radically and decisively, established her own laws for herself and for her family... Moreover, keep in mind that the current family is the second in a row. I never write about the first one.
Has your book together somehow changed the way you think about each other? You’ve been together for so many years that it seems you already know everything about each other. Or not all?
On the one hand, we know everything, and even more. On the other hand... You see, Boris has a workshop on the second floor. I go up there very rarely - and I myself don’t like being disturbed while I’m working, and I also try to meddle in my own husband’s “kitchen” less often. But sometimes he himself calls me to see new paintings. I rise and see... I see pictures of a completely different person, new to me, always new. The other day we celebrated in a narrow family circle his birthday (he doesn’t like large feasts, toasts, noisy congratulations). Only the children and another guest from Moscow came. And drinking to his health, I said approximately the following: “I have met the most different men. Many of them are bright, talented and witty people. But all my life the most interesting thing for me was with own husband».
Dina Ilyinichna Rubina(born September 19, 1953, Tashkent, Uzbek SSR) - Russian writer living in Israel, member of the Union of Writers of the USSR (1979), the international PEN Club, the Union of Russian-language Writers of Israel (1990).
Biography
Born on September 19, 1953 in Tashkent in the family of artist Ilya Davidovich Rubin and a history teacher.
She graduated from a specialized music school at the Tashkent Conservatory. Impressions from the “musical play” were included in the collection of stories and short stories “Music Lessons”.
In 1977, Rubina graduated from the Tashkent Conservatory and taught at the Institute of Culture in Tashkent.
Dina Rubina’s first youthful works were published in the pages of the magazine “Youth”. Dina Rubina’s literary fame came from the publication in 1977 of the story “When Will It Snow?..”. In it, a girl meets her love on the eve of a deadly operation. A film was made based on this work, a television and radio play was staged, and a play was written, which was performed on the stage of the Moscow Youth Theater for many years. That same year, at the age of 24, she became a member of the Writers' Union of the UzSSR - at that time the youngest member of such organizations in the country. In 1979 she became a member of the USSR SP.
On the set of the film based on the story “Tomorrow, as usual,” the writer met her second husband and went with him to Moscow. The film turned out to be unsuccessful, but after it Dina Rubina wrote one of her best works, “The Camera Rolls In.” The writer lived and worked in Moscow before leaving for permanent residence in Israel at the end of 1990.
After moving to Israel, she worked as a literary editor in the weekly literary supplement “Friday” for the Russian-language newspaper “Our Country”.
During these years, Russian magazines “New World”, “Znamya”, “Friendship of Peoples” began to publish Rubina’s works.
In 2001-2003 she worked in Moscow as the head of cultural programs of the Jewish Agency (Sokhnut).
Currently lives in the city of Ma'ale Adumim.
Family
Father - artist Ilya Rubin. Her husband is artist Boris Karafelov, a regular illustrator of her works.
Dina Rubina has a son, Dmitry, from her first marriage and a daughter, Eva, from her second.
Literary awards
- Prize from the Ministry of Culture of Uzbekistan for the play “Wonderful Doira” for the musical comedy theater, written by her together with the poet Rudolf Barinsky in the late 70s of the 20th century in Tashkent, based on Uzbek folk tales.
- Prize named after Arie Dulchina (Israel) for the book “One intellectual sat down on the road.”
- Prize of the Union of Writers of Israel for the novel “Here comes the Messiah!”
- Russian Big Book Award for 2007 for the novel “On the Sunny Side of the Street.”
- March 2008 - Prize from the Oleg Tabakov Charitable Foundation for the story “Adam and Miryam”, published in the magazine “Friendship of Peoples”, No. 7, 2007.
- April 2009 - “Portal” award, best work of fiction (large form) for the novel “Leonardo’s Handwriting”
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