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Peretz-Dror Banai

פרץ דרור בנאי

Peretz-Dror Banai was born in 1947 in Gamishli, Syria. He grew up in Aleppo and attended a Protestant school. He immigrated with his family to Israel in 1962. The family’s first home was in an immigrant transit camp near the town of Kfar Saba, where he lives today. He has translated and published modern Arab poetry and prose (Mahmud Darwish, Joubran Khalil Joubran).

The Books

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  • Torn Happiness

    [Simcha Kru'a]
    Poetry
    Keshev 2012

  • Sixty Below Zero

    [Shishim Mi-Tachat La-Efes]
    Poetry
    Keshev 2008

  • Sea Routes

    [Afikei Yam]
    Poetry
    Keshev 2007

  • California Notebooks

    [Machberot California]
    Poetry
    Even Hoshen 2004

  • Last Edge of Beauty

    [Gvul Acharon Le-Yofi]
    Poetry
    Sifriat Poalim 1999

  • Touches that Fled in a Cloud

    [Negi'ot She-Parchu Be-Anan]
    Poetry
    Sifriat Poalim 1997

  • Mainly the '90

    [Shnot Ha-Tish'im Be-Ikar]
    Poetry
    Sifriat Poalim 1996

  • Turquoise

    [Turkiz]
    Poetry
    Sifriat Poalim 1993

  • Poems from the Same Sea

    [Shirim Me-Oto Ha-Yam]
    Poetry
    Bitan 1992

  • Lion's Study

    [Mishnat Arayot]
    Poetry
    Sifriat Poalim 1991

  • Exchange My Life

    [Ba-Avur Chayai]
    Poetry
    Sifriat Poalim 1988

  • Foliage

    [Badim]
    Poetry
    Sifriat Poalim 1987

  • A Bow and a Spear

    [Keshet Ve-Kidon]
    Poetry
    Sifriat Poalim 1985

  • The Sound of Days

    [She'on Ha-Yamim]
    Hakibbutz Hameuchad 1985

  • Splendor and Nothing Else

    [Yif'at Ve-Lo Mashehu Acher]
    Poetry
    Sifriat Poalim 1982

  • Oxygen

    [Chamtzan]
    Poetry
    Stavit 1980