Oded Peled

Oded Peled was born in Haifa in 1950 and now lives in Kibbutz Kfar HaNassi. He studied English literature and political science at Haifa University and works as translator and editor. Peled writes poetry and prose and translates American literature, including a collection of modern American poetry. He was awarded the Chomsky Prize for Poetry (1986), the Prime Minister’s Prize for Translation (1990), the Prime Minister’s Prize for Literature twice (1997; 2007) and  the Arik Einstein Prize (2015).