Irit Linur

Irit Linur (born 1961) is an Israeli writer and radio commentator. Her name also appears in English as Linor or Linoor. She is known for being outspoken, witty and abrasive, and is a self-declared "female chauvinist". She is considered to be one of the first female Israeli writers to consciously and unabashedly write lightweight, romantic fiction.

She is divorced from Alon Ben David, Senior Defense Correspondent for Israel Channel 10 and Middle East Correspondent for Jane's Defense Weekly.

Linur started her writing career as a satirical columnist in local newspapers. Her first full-length novel was "The Siren's Song", a romantic comedy set on the background of the scud missile attacks on Tel-Aviv during the Gulf War. The book was later adapted into a successful feature-length film.

This inaugural book by Irit Linur was semi-autobiographical. She followed it with her second novel, "Two Snow Whites", about a photographer who finds herself involved in a murder case. "Sandler Ella", her third novel, is set against the background of the glamorous life of media broadcasters.

Her fourth novel, "The Brown Girls", was adapted as a popular television mini-series.

Linur has also published a book of humorous essays, "The Secret Blonde".

Plot summaries

The heroine of "The Siren's Song" is a young woman named Talilah Katz who is graced with all the attributes of a successful woman: money, beauty, intelligence and health, and a dirty mouth to boot. She has an apartment in northern Tel Aviv and a closet full of clothes. But in spite of this she is not happy. She hates her work and her last boyfriend is about to marry another woman, younger and prettier. And then Scuds begin to fall from the sky. Between missile raids, Talilah tries to make a new start in life.

"The Brown Girls" takes place in the mid-80s, dealing with a semi-communal farming village ("moshav") named Kfar Ilan whose financial situation is shaky. Eli Menasheh, a lawyer who claims to be a visionary, purports to save the residents and assures them that he will return them to prosperity. The daughters of the Brown family particularly fall into his net, as he tries to court them.

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111171/ IMDB entry for "Song of the Siren"]