Dina Ilyinichna Rubina (, born 19 September 1953 in Tashkent) is a Russian language Israeli prose writer and one of the Russian Jews in Israel.

Biography

Rubina was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She studied music at the Tashkent Conservatory and published her first story at the age of 16 in Yunost. In the mid-1980s, after stage and screen writing for several years, she moved to Moscow. In 1990, she made aliyah. Lived in Ma’aleh Adumim, then in Mevaseret Zion.

Literary career

Rubina is one of the most prominent Russian-language Israeli writers. Her books have been translated into 30 languages. Her major themes are Jewish and Israeli history, migration, nomadism, neo-indigeneity, messianism, metaphysics, theatre, autobiography and the interplay between the Israeli and Russian Jewish cultures and languages. Dual Surname (Двойная фамилия) was adapted into a movie released in 2006 and aired on Russia's Channel One. In 2007, Rubina won the Russian Big Book literary award.

Published works

Novels

Short stories

Essays

English translations

"The Blackthorn" is a story from Lives in Transit, Ardis Publishers, 1995.