Linor Goralik | |
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Лино́р-Джулия Гора́лик | |
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| Born | Ю́лия Бори́совна Гора́лик 1975 (age 48–49) |
| Occupation(s) | poet, artist, essayist |
| Years active | 1999 — current |
Linor Goralik (Russian: Лино́р Гора́лик, born Yuliya Borisovna Goralik, Russian: Юлия Борисовна Горалик on 9 July 1975, in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR) is an Israeli author, poet, artist, essayist and marketing specialist.
She was born on 9 July 1975 in a Jewish family in Dnipropetrovsk, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (now Dnipro in Ukraine).[1] [2]
Her family emigrated to Israel in 1989. In her interviews she said that she became seriously interested in mathematics at the age of 10. She studied computer science from 1991 to 1994 at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba.[3]
In 1999, with the help of Alexander Zhitinsky she published her first book of poetry.[4][5]
Goralik lived in Moscow from 2000 to 2014. She worked there as a journalist and marketing analyst.[6] At that period she translated works of Etgar Keret and Vytautas Pliura (with Stanislav Lvovsky). She also started working in cultural marketing, with Stanislav Lvovsky she organized several art exhibitions and projects, bringing contemporary Israeli culture to Moscow.[4]
In 2002, she held her personal exhibition titled "Pity without looking" at the Marat Gelman gallery.[5]
In 2003, she won ‘Triumph’ Youth prize.[3]
As a teacher, she taught marketing at the Stockholm School of Economics and fashion theory at the Institute of Humanities Historical and Theoretical Studies at the Higher School of Economics.[7]
She is a regular contributor to the magazines Teoriya Modi (‘Fashion Theory’), New Literary Review, she also has a column on the cultural studies of contemporary costume in the newspaper Vedomosti.[8]
In 2006, she created a series of comics about ‘the Hare named FML’ (in Russian mat, his name is abbreviated ‘pizdetz’). In the scenes, the protagonist encounters his imaginary friends, their dialogs are full of sad irony and ‘touching cynicism’.[9] As Goralik puts it, ‘he is about politics and everyday survival’.[4]
In February 2013 she recorded an address in support of the Russian LGBT community.[10]
After the 2014 annexation of Crimea she returned to Israel, but continued to travel between the two countries until November 2021.[11] She is a vocal opponent to Vladimir Putin's regime and to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. In August 2023 Goralik was added to Russia's list of ‘foreign agents’, according to the Russian Ministry of Justice Goralik had spoken out against Russia’s “special military operation in Ukraine” (Russia's official term for the invasion of Ukraine) and had "created or disseminated materials for foreign agents.”.[12]
Goralik confesses that she has bipolar disorder, which she is treating with the help of a psychologist, psychotherapist and medication.[4]
