Singer Gali-Dana (23 April 1962, Leningrad) — poet, translator, literary editor.
Gali-Dana Singer studied at the Faculty of Theatre Studies, Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography. In 1985 moved to Riga, where she actively participated in unofficial Jewish cultural life, studied Hebrew and later taught it. In 1988 emigrated to Israel and settled in Jerusalem.
Author of five poetry books in Russian: Sbornik (Collected Works), Adel Kilka. Iz, Besieged Yarusarim, Part Tse, Crossing the Marked Line / From Five Books; as well as poems published in periodicals in Israel, Russia, the United Kingdom, and France, and in the landmark anthology The Freed Ulysses: Contemporary Russian Poetry Beyond Russia (Moscow, 2004). Author of three poetry books in Hebrew: Lakhshov Nahar, Shirim Ivrim, Tzoref Mikrim. Recipient of the Yaakov Caban Prize (1997) for writers in foreign languages, the Poetry–2000 Prize, and the Israeli Prime Minister’s Award for Hebrew Poetry (2004). Participant in six Hebrew poetry festivals in Metulla, international poetry festivals in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Mrar, and the third and fourth international poetry festivals in Moscow. English translations of her poems have been included in both British and American anthologies of Russian and Israeli poetry.
Translator of Hebrew poetry into Russian; her translations have appeared in periodicals and anthologies. In 1998, Raduga Publishers (Moscow) issued the anthology Peace Be Upon You (poems by 50 Israeli poets in her translations). Author of the radio series Dvoogolosie (Two Voices), presenting Hebrew poetry in Russian translation. She has also translated Russian, Anglo-American, Polish, and Spanish poetry into Hebrew, including works by L. Rubinstein, J. Brodsky, E. Schwartz, D. A. Prigov, P. Peppershtein, A. Vvedensky, D. Kharms, I. Bokshtein, A. Volokhonsky, S. Greenberg, K. I. Galczynski, D. Shapiro, O. Paz, J. R. Jiménez, among others.
Editor-in-chief of the literary journals I.O. (1994–1995) and Dvoetochie (Colon) (published since 1995; between 2001–2005 issued as the bilingual intercultural edition Dvoetochie Nekudataim in Russian and Hebrew; since 2006 published as an online edition at polutona.ru). Photographer and artist, author of a number of visual projects carried out in Israel, and co-author (with N. Singer) of the Manifesto of Neo-Eclecticism (1991).
Selected works: Sbornik (Jerusalem: Auditoriia, 1992); Adel Kilka. Iz (Jerusalem: Auditoriia, 1993); Besieged Yarusarim (Moscow–Jerusalem: Bridges of Culture, 2002); Part Tse (Moscow: Argo-Risk, 2005); Crossing the Marked Line / From Five Books (Moscow: New Literary Review, 2009); Lakhshov Nahar (Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2000); Shirim Ivrim (Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2002); Tzoref Mikrim (Even Hoshen, 2006).