Singer Nekod (9 August 1960, Novosibirsk) — artist, writer, translator, journalist, literary critic.

Nekod Zinger writes and publishes in Russian and Hebrew. From 1980 lived in Leningrad, where he studied at the Faculty of Theatre Studies, Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography. In 1985–88 lived in Riga, where he actively participated in underground Jewish and Zionist circles, attending and leading home seminars on Judaism, Jewish culture, and history. In August 1988 emigrated to Israel, where he lives in Jerusalem.

Participant in more than 30 Israeli and international art exhibitions. Recipient of the Yad Yosef Prize. Co-author (with G.-D. Singer) of the Manifesto of Neo-Eclecticism (1991). Illustrator of children’s books and of a series by Haim Gouri devoted to the heritage of the Yiddish language. Co-editor (with G.-D. Singer) of the bilingual (Hebrew–Russian) literary and cultural journal Dvoetochie נקודתיים (Dvoetochie Nekudataim).

Author of the novel Tickets at the Box Office (Bilety v kasse). An author’s version of this novel in Hebrew was serialized in Israeli literary periodicals and is being prepared for book publication. Regular contributor of essays and articles to the Israeli press and to the cultural website booknik.ru. As a journalist, writes on Judaica, local history and culture of Israel, contemporary art and literature. Author of a series of articles on eccentric tendencies in Israeli poetry written in Russian, as well as profiles of Russian-speaking writers for the Hebrew Lexicon of Israeli Writers.

Translator from Hebrew into Russian of David Shahar’s novels Summer in Prophet Street and Journey to Ur of the Chaldees, David Grossman’s Someone to Run With, Felix Zandman’s autobiography Never the Last Journey (Russian title: Through Hardships to the Stars: My Journey from Wyszków to Vishay), as well as numerous stories and excerpts by Israeli writers, and classical Jewish texts (including Midrash Rabbah). Also translates Russian-language prose of Israeli writers into Hebrew.

Selected works: Tickets at the Box Office (Moscow–Jerusalem: Bridges of Culture, 2006)