Amir Or

Amir Or in 2010.

Amir Or (born 1956), is an Israeli editor, translator and award-winning poet whose works have been published in more than 40 languages.[1]

He is the author of eleven volumes of poetry as of late 2014, and his latest books in Hebrew are Heart Beast (2010), The Madman's Prophecy (2012) and Loot (selected poems 1977-2013)(2013).[1]

Individual poems by Amir Or have been published in English, German, Danish, Dutch, Shetlandic, Swedish, Norwegian, French,Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Romanian, Welsh, Gaelic, Irish, Greek, Armenian,Albanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian, Macedonian, Slovak, Czech, Latvian,Lithuanian, Georgian, Persian, Hindi, Malayalam, Kanada, Telugu, Arabic,Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Finnish and Estonian.[1]

Biography

Or was born in Tel Aviv, and besides other jobs he has worked as a shepherd, builder and restaurateur.[2] He studied philosophy and comparative religion at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he later lectured on Ancient Greek Religion. He has published essays on poetry, classics and religious studies, and has taught creative writing in universities in Israel, Europe, USA and Japan.[1]

In 1990 he founded "Helicon Society, Israel" and has been Editor-in-Chief of Helicon's journal and series of poetry books. In 1993 he set up the Arabic-Hebrew Helicon Poetry School and has founded and directed the Sha’ar International Poetry Festival. Or has also edited other literary journals and several anthologies of Hebrew verse in European languages. He serves as editor of the Catuv poetry books series, as national editor of the international poetry magazines Atlas and Blesok, and as a national coordinator for the U.N. sponsored UPC venture, “Poets for Peace.” He is a founding memberof the EACWP (European Association of Creative Writing Programs) of theinternational Circle of Poets and of the WPM (World Poetry Movement).[1]

Awards and recognition

For his poetry he has been awarded the Levi Eshkol Prime Minister’s Literary Prize, the Harry Harshon prize, the Bernstein Prize (original Hebrew-language poetry category), a Fulbright Award for writers, the Oeneumi literary prize of the Tetovo Poetry Festival 2010, the Wine Poetry prize 2013 of the Struga Poetry Evenings, and the Stefan Mirtov Ljubiša international literary award, 2014; as well as Fellowships at the University of Iowa, the Jewish-Hebrew Centre of the University of Oxford, the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Literarische Colloquium, Berlin among others. For his translations he received the Honorary Prize of the Israeli Minister of Culture.[1]

Books

In Hebrew

Books translated into other languages

His translations into Hebrew

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Levin, Lynn, "Israeli Poet Amir Or: A Conversation About Language, Myth, and the Soul" at the "Poetry Life and Times" Web site, accessed December 10, 2006
  2. Artvilla.com Web site, Web page titled "Amir Or -- Bio:", accessed December 10, 2006

External links

Poetry online

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