Merav Fima
Merav Fima is a PhD candidate in the Literary and Cultural Studies program at Monash University. Her prose and poetry have appeared in a number of anthologies and literary journals, including Verge, Colloquy, and Meanjin. Her short story ‘Bride Immaculate’ won the first prize in the Energheia Literary Competition in Matera, Italy (2014) and ‘Rose among the Thorns’ was a finalist in the Tiferet literary journal’s 2019 fiction contest. She is the translator of Gal Ventura’s scholarly monograph, Maternal Breast-Feeding and Its Substitutes in Nineteenth-Century French Art (Brill, 2018). She is currently at work on her first novel and a collection of short stories.
‘Exile is a profound stimulus to the human anxiety for literary representation,’ writes Harold Bloom. Whether voluntary or involuntary, this impetus is the driving force behind the works in The Penguin Book of Migration Literature.
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Sing This at My Funeral is not your conventional ghost story. Invoking Franz Kafka’s words, ‘Writing letters is actually an intercourse with ghosts, and by no means just the ghost of the addressee but also with one’s own ghost, which secretly evolves inside the letter one is writing or even in a whole series of letters’, this moving memoir by David Slucki gives shape to the ghost of Zaida ... (read more)