Amir Or

Amir Or, 2010

Amir Or (born 1956), a leading Israeli poet, novelist and essayist, has been recognized as a major new generation voice in world literature. His works have been published in 45 languages.[1]

He is the author of twelve volumes of poetry as of late 2017, and his latest books in Hebrew are The Madman's Prophecy (2012), Loot (selected poems 1977-2013)(2013) and Wings (2015) .[1] Or also published a fictional epic in metered prose, The Song of Tahira (2001) and the novel The Kingdom (2015) about the life of king David and contemporary society.


Biography

Amir Or was born in Tel Aviv. 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. Or has published essays on poetry, classics and religious studies, and has taught creative writing in universities in Israel, Europe, USA and Japan.[1]

Literary career

In 1990 Or 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 the international Circle of Poets and of the WPM (World Poetry Movement).[1]

Awards and recognition

For his poetry, Or was 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, the Stefan Mirtov Ljubiša international literary award 2014, the European Atlas of Lyrics award 2016 and the BlueMet World Through Poetry award 2017; 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]

Published works

Hebrew books

Books translated into other languages

Or's translations into Hebrew

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-11-21. Retrieved 2006-12-10. 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

Poetry online

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.