David Markish (Russian: Давид Маркиш, Hebrew: דוד מרקיש), is an Israeli prose writer, poet and translator who writes predominantly in Russian.

David Markish was born in 1938 in Moscow, the Soviet Union to the famous Jewish poet Peretz Markish (1895-1952), murdered in the case of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, mother – writer Esther Efimovna Lazebnikova-Markish (1912-2010), older brother – Shimon Markish (Russian: Симон Перецович Маркиш) (1931-2003) – professor at the University of Geneva, half-sister ceramic sculptor (English: Olga Rapay-Markish) (1929-2012).

In January 1953, the Peretz Markish family was arrested and exiled to Kazakhstan Kzyl-Orda.

He studied at the Literary Institute named after Maksim Gorky (1957-1962) and at the Higher Courses of scriptwriters and film directors in Moscow (1967-1968).

Twelve of David's novels were published in Russian, most were translated into other languages and published in the USA,[2] United Kingdom, Germany, France, Switzerland, Sweden, and Brazil.