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.[1] Lived in Ma’aleh Adumim, then in Mevaseret Zion.
Literary career
Rubina is one of the most prominent Russian-language Israeli writers.[2][3] Her books have been translated into 30 languages.[4] Her major themes are Jewish and Israeli history, migration, nomadism, neo-indigeneity, messianism, metaphysics,[5] theatre, autobiography and the interplay between the Israeli and Russian Jewish cultures and languages.[6]
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.[7]
Katsman, Roman. Nostalgia for a Foreign Land: Studies in Russian-Language Literature in Israel. Series: Jews of Russia and Eastern Europe and Their Legacy. Brighton MA: Academic Studies Press, 2016.
Kuznetsova, Natalia. “Simvolika ognia v romane-komikse Diny Rubinoi ‘Sindikat,’ ili Ob ‘ognennom angele nashego podiezda’” [Symbolism of fire in the novel-comics by Dina Rubina “Sindicate”]. Booknik, March 20, 2008. Accessed June 20, 2014. booknik.ru/library/all/simvolika-ognya-v-romane-komikse-diny-rubinoyi-sindikat-ili-ob-ognennom-angele-nashego-podezda.
Mondry, Henrietta. Exemplary Bodies: Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture, 1880s to 2008. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2009.
Ronell, Anna P. “Some Thoughts on Russian-Language Israeli Fiction: Introducing Dina Rubina.” Prooftexts 28, no. 2 (2008): 197–231.
Sergo, Iulia. “Postmodernistski dialog kultur: obraz Ispanii v romane D. Rubinoi ‘Poslednyi kaban iz lesov Pontevedra’” [Postmodern dialogue of cultures: The image of Spain in Dina Rubina’s novel The last wild boar from the forests of Pontevedra]. Filologicheski klass 17 (2007): 49–53.
Shkarpetkina, Olga. “‘Poslednyi kaban iz lesov Pontevedra’ Diny Rubinoi" [The last wild boar from the forests of Pontevedra by Dina Rubina]. Kultura i iskusstvo, July 20, 2013. Accessed June 15, 2014. www.cultandart.ru/prose/48269-poslednij_kaban_iz_lesov_pontevedra.