1. Yona Wallach is considered a revolutionary Israeli feminist and post-modernist.
24 Facts About Yona Wallach
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Yona Wallach began receiving critical acclaim in the late 1970s.
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Yona Wallach was born on June 10,1944, in Kiryat Ono, Israel.
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The name Yona Wallach was given to her in memory of three deceased relatives.
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Yona Wallach was expelled from high school after tenth grade, and then spent a short time at the Avni Institute of Art and Design.
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Around the age of nineteen, Yona Wallach moved to Jerusalem, where she befriended petty thieves and drug dealers.
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Yona Wallach experienced multiple mental breakdowns, the first one occurring in her late teens.
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Yona Wallach stated that she voluntarily admitted herself to a psychiatric hospital around the age of twenty to gain insight into the mental struggles her friends were facing.
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Yona Wallach enjoyed using psychedelics, describing the hallucinations as experiences that expanded her consciousness.
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Yona Wallach was known for stealing the girlfriends of her male friends.
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At 24, Yona Wallach was admitted to a psychiatric hospital for a second time, where she remained for four and a half months.
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Yona Wallach later claimed that she only began to feel safe and secure once her works were published and her reputation established.
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Yona Wallach returned to live with her mother, Rachel, in Kiryat Ono after her second psychiatric hospitalization.
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Yona Wallach served as the primary caregiver for Rachel, who had Parkinson's disease.
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Yona Wallach began performing her poetry with a rock band she formed with two musician friends, though they insisted she recite rather than sing her poetry, as she struggled to stay in tune.
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In 1981, at the age of 36, Yona Wallach found a lump in her breast and was diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Yona Wallach declined treatment for two years, convinced that the same inner spirit driving her poetry would guide her healing process.
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Those close to her described Yona Wallach as being lonely at the end of her life.
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Yona Wallach knew from a young age that she wanted to be a writer.
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When she was kicked out of school in the tenth grade, the headmistress cited Yona Wallach as having neglected her studies in preference to doodling and writing poems.
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Yona Wallach became a member of the "Tel Aviv Poets" group, which was influenced by American Beat Poetry, with poets Meir Weiseltier and Yair Hurvitz.
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Yona Wallach never left the country seeking intellectual inspiration like many of her literary counterparts.
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Yona Wallach was unanimously accepted into the Tel-Aviv Foundation for Culture and Art and won three literary prizes between the summers of 1977 and 1978.
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Yona Wallach became an Israeli celebrity, with tabloids following her around and her work becoming more widely published.