Rahila Pollack

**Rachel Grace Pollack** (17 ga Agusta, 1945 - 7 ga Afrilu, 2023) marubuciya ce ta fiction ta kimiyya ta Amurka, marubuciyar littafi mai ban dariya, kuma gwani a kan Tarot na duba.

## Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi
An haifi Pollack a ranar 17 ga watan Agusta, 1945, a Brooklyn, New York ga dangin Yahudawa. Ta sami digiri na girmamawa a Turanci daga Jami'ar New York da kuma digiri na biyu a Turanci daga jami'ar Claremont Graduate . 

## Ayyuka

### Karatun Tarot
Pollack ya rubuta littafin 1985 Salvador Dalí's Tarot, wani bayani game da filin *Tarot na Salvador Dali*, wanda ya ƙunshi cikakken shafi na launi ga kowane katin, tare da sharhin ta a shafin da ke gaba. Ayyukanta na 78 Degrees of Wisdom a kan Karatun Tarot galibi masu karatun Tarot ne ke ambaton su. Ta kirkiro nata Tarot, Shining Woman Tarot (daga baya Shining Tribe Tarot).  Ta kuma taimaka wajen kirkirar Vertigo Tarot Deck tare da mai zane Dave McKean da marubucin Neil Gaiman, kuma ta rubuta littafi don tafiya tare da shi. Gaiman wani lokaci yakan tuntubi Pollack a kan tarot don labarun sa.

### Wasan kwaikwayo
Pollack ya rubuta don littafin ban dariya Doom Patrol, a kan DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, daga 1993 zuwa 1995. Ta gudanar da batutuwan (64-87) [1] ci gaba ne na wasan kwaikwayo na shekarun 1960 wanda kwanan nan ya zama abin sha'awa a karkashin Grant Morrison . Pollack ta karɓi jerin a 1993 bayan ta sadu da editan Tom Peyer a wata ƙungiya, ta gaya masa cewa ita ce kawai littafin ban dariya na kowane wata da za ta so ta rubuta a lokacin, kuma ta aiko masa da rubutun samfurin. Zuwa ƙarshen guduwar Morrison, Pollack ta fara rubuta "wasiku ga editan" kowane wata a cikin abin da ta bayyana a matsayin muryar "gee-whiz fangirl" tana neman karɓar littafin lokacin da Morrison ya gama. A cikin wasikar karshe, ta yi iƙirarin cewa ta riga ta gaya wa mahaifiyarta cewa an ba ta aikin. Peyer ya yi amfani da wannan amsa ga wannan wasika don sanar da cewa Pollack, a zahiri, ya karɓi littafin.

A lokacin da take aiki, Pollack ta yi hulɗa da batutuwan da ba a saba magana da su ba kamar haila, Jima'i, da kuma jima'i. Ta ƙare shekaru biyu bayan haka, tare da soke littafin.

Baya ga Doom Patrol, Pollack ya rubuta batutuwan Vertigo Visions anthology wanda ke nuna Brother Power the Geek (1993) da Tomahawk (1998), batutuwan farko 11 na kundi na huɗu na New Gods (1995), da kuma jerin Time Breakers (1996) na gajeren lokaci na Helix.

A cikin 2019, an ba da sanarwar cewa Pollack yana sake haɗuwa da mai zane-zane na Doom Patrol Richard Case da marubucin John Workman don ƙirƙirar ɗan gajeren labari - mai taken "Snake Song" - don Kickstarter da ke tallafawa "music-themed horror anthology" Dead Beats . 

A cikin 2024, DC Comics ta buga "DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack" sake buga fitowar 70 na "Doom Patrol" da fitowar 1 na "Vertigo Visions: The Geek # 1 'Homelands of the Dolls'" da kuma gabatarwar haraji ta Stuart Moore da sabon labari, "Shining Through the Wreckage" sake duba halin Pollack's Doom Patrol Coagula wanda Joe Corallo ya rubuta.

### Labari ne
Uku daga cikin litattafan Pollack sun lashe ko kuma an zabi su don manyan kyaututtuka a fannin fiction na kimiyya da fantasy: Unquenchable Fire ya lashe lambar yabo ta Arthur C. Clarke ta 1989; Godmother Night ta lashe lambar yabo na Fantasy ta Duniya ta 1997, an sanya ta cikin jerin sunayen don lambar yabo ta James Tiptree Jr., kuma an zabi ta Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Literature; yayin da aka zabi Hukumar Na wucin gadi don 1995 Nebula Award da Mythopoeic Award, kuma an sanya ta ga Tiptree.

Littattafansa na sihiri  suna bincika duniyoyin da ke cike da abubuwa da aka samo daga al'adu, bangaskiya, da addinai da yawa. Yawancin litattafanta an saita su ne a cikin wani madadin gaskiyar da ta yi kama da Amurka ta zamani, amma Amurka ta Bright Beings, inda sihiri da al'ada, addini da thaumaturgy sune ka'idoji.

An buga gajeren aikinta "Burning Beard: The Dreams and Visions of Joseph ben Jacob, Lord Viceroy of Egypt" a cikin 2007 a cikin tarihin Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, wanda Theodora Goss da Delia Sherman suka shirya. An sake buga shi a kan layi a cikin Lightspeed a watan Mayu 2014. 

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