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David Markish (Russian: Давид Маркиш, Hebrew: דוד מרקיש), is an Israeli prose writer, poet and translator who writes predominantly in Russian.
David Markish was born in 1938 in Moscow, the Soviet Union to the famous Jewish poet Peretz Markish (1895-1952), murdered in the case of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, mother – writer Esther Efimovna Lazebnikova-Markish (1912-2010), older brother – Shimon Markish (Russian: Симон Перецович Маркиш) (1931-2003) – professor at the University of Geneva, half-sister ceramic sculptor (English: Olga Rapay-Markish) (1929-2012).
In January 1953, the Peretz Markish family was arrested and exiled to Kazakhstan Kzyl-Orda. In 1954, he returned to Moscow with his family. He studied at the Literary Institute named after Maksim Gorky (1957-1962) and at the Higher Courses of scriptwriters and film directors in Moscow (1967-1968). In 1972 he repatriated to Israel[1] and participated in the Yom Kippur War (1973). He lives in Or Yehuda.
Twelve of David's novels were published in Russian, most were translated into other languages and published in the USA,[2] United Kingdom, Germany, France, Switzerland, Sweden, and Brazil. He has been awarded many international literary prizes, including the Ukrainian Literary Prize, the British Book League Prize and the Ivan Machabeli Georgian Literary Prize. David was a Chairman of the Union of Russian-Speaking Writers of Israel (1982–85) and the President of the Israel Association of Creative Intelligentsia (since 2000).