Dr. Nir Ratzkovsky is an Israeli writer, translator and scholar. He teaches in the Department of Culture Studies at the University of Haifa. 

Nir was awarded an International Writing Program fellowship at the University of Iowa, taking part in the writing residency program there.

His publications include the novel Beloved, Daughter (2013), the children’s book Lech Lecha (2016), and the research book Adventures of Molière in the Holy Tongue (2024), as well as academic papers and journalistic writing. For many years he was editor of the Livres en scène (“Books on stage”) festival at the Cameri Theatre in Tel-Aviv. 

As a translator, Nir has translated numerous works of French literature into Hebrew, by prominent contemporary writers such as Michel Houellebecq, Emmanuel Carrère and Patrick Modiano, and classic writers such as Albert Camus, Marcel Proust, Victor Hugo, Simone de Beauvoir, Romain Gary and others. For his work as a translator, Nir was awarded the title of Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government.