Haim Gouri

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Haim Gouri (Hebrew: חיים גורי, b. 1923) is an Israeli poet, novelist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker born in Tel Aviv and currently living in Jerusalem. Following time in Europe where he helped Jews emigrate to Palestine following World War II, he fought in the 1948 Israeli War of Independence. The impact of these events on Gouri is evident in his writing.

He has been called "Israel's Poet." He was awarded the Bialik Prize for Literature in 1975 and the Israel Prize for Poetry in 1988. The film The 81st Blow, which he wrote, co-produced, and co-directed, was nominated for the 1974 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.

His famous poem Imo ("his Mother") is a moving call for compassion and empathy for Israel's defeated enemies. On the other hand, Gouri was also one of those who called for "The Complete Land of Israel" to be incorporated into the state.

Contents 1 Selected works 1.1 Poetry 1.2 Fiction 1.3 Non-fiction 1.4 Documentary films 2 References

[edit] Selected works

[edit] Poetry

• Flowers of Fire, Years of Fire (1949)
• Poems of the Seal (1954)
• Compass Rose (1960)
• Movement to Touch (1968)
• Gehazi Visions (1974)
• The Eagle Line (1975)
• Words in My Love-Sick Blood (selected poems in English translation). Detroit: Wayne State University, 1996, ISBN 0-8143-2594-7.
• The Poems, in two volumes (1998)

[edit] Fiction

• The Chocolate Deal (1965). English translations: New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968, ISBN 1-125-15196-X. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8143-2800-8.
• The Crazy Book (1971)
• The Interrogation, The Story of Reuel (1980)

[edit] Non-fiction

• Facing the Glass Booth: the Jerusalem Trial of Adolf Eichmann (1962). English translation: Detroit: Wayne State University, 2004, ISBN 0-8143-3087-8.
• Pages of Jerusalem, notes (1968)

[edit] Documentary films

• The 81st Blow (Ha-Makah Hashmonim V'Echad, 1974), distributed with English subtitles by "American Federation of Jewish Fighters, Camp Inmates and Nazi Victims"
• The Last Sea (Ha-Yam Ha'Aharon, 1980)
• Flames in the Ashes (Pnei Hamered, 1985)

[edit] References

• "חיים גורי" (Haim Gouri) in the Hebrew-language Wikipedia. Retrieved May 29, 2005.
• "Haim Gouri" (capsule biography and bibliography) at the Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature.
• "Haim Gouri" in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).
• See The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself (2003), ISBN 0-8143-2485-1