Simon Halkin

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Simon Halkin (1899-1987) was an Israeli poet and translator.

Simon Halkin was born in Belarus in 1899. He lived and studied in the United States from 1914 to 1932. He worked as a teacher in Tel Aviv from 1932 to 1939, but then returned to America. He made his final move to Israel in 1949, when he succeeded Joseph Klausner as Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

After retiring from the Hebrew University he served as a professor of Jewish Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He translated William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, and other writers from English into Hebrew. He died in 1987 in Jerusalem, Israel. His most famous book of poetry is On the Island (1946).

[edit] Awards

Simon Halkin won the Israel Prize for Literature in 1975.

[edit] References

The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself (2003), ISBN 0-8143-2485-1.