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Yehuda Amichai was born in Würzburg, Germany, to an Orthodox Jewish family, and was raised speaking both Hebrew and German.His German name was Ludwig Pfeuffer. [2]Amichai immigrated with his family at the age of eleven to Petah Tikva in Mandate Palestine in 1935, moving to Jerusalem in 1936.
The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself is an anthology of modern Hebrew poetry, presented in the original language, with a transliteration into Roman script, a literal translation into English, and commentaries and explanations. [1] Two editions of this book have appeared so far: First edition, published in 1965 by Schocken Books.
She translated works by modern Hebrew poets including The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai [8] with Stephen Mitchell, and Amichai's Open Closed Open, as well as Hovering at a Low Altitude: The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch with Chana Kronfeld.
Agi Mishol (Hebrew: אגי משעול; born October 20, 1947) is an Israeli poet. [1] Mishol's work has been published in several languages, and has won various awards including the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award, the Horst Bienek Prize for Poetry and the Yehuda Amichai prize for literature.
The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai (with Chana Bloch), University of California Press, 1996, ISBN 0-520-20538-3; The Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke, Simon & Schuster, 1985, ISBN 0-671-55708-4; The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke, Graywolf Press, 1985, ISBN 0-910457-02-6
He is the recipient of the Prime Minister's Award, Yehuda Amichai Award for Hebrew poetry, The "Wine poem award" in Struga Poetry Evenings, Macedonia, 2005 and Hans Berghhuis prize for poetry 2006 at the Maastricht International Poetry Nights, the Netherlands. [2]
Raised speaking Spanish in Morocco, he began writing poetry in English. He began translating his poetry from English to Hebrew before beginning to write poetry in Hebrew directly. [2] Benarroch has published over 25 novels and was awarded the Jacqueline Kahanoff Prize for fiction and the Yehuda Amichai Poetry Prize in 2012. [3] [4]
A collection of about seventy poems under the title Between Boulders of Basalt and Foundation, was translated into English by Shay K. Azoulay. [2] Hess published 13 volumes of poetry in all. She was twice awarded the Prime Minister's prize for poetry, the Yehuda Amichai Award, as well as the Kugel & AHI Award for poetry.