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Yitzhak Laor, poet, novelist, essayist and playwright, was born in Pardes Hannah, Israel, in 1948. He received his PhD in theater and literature from Tel Aviv University, and writes editorials and literary reviews for the Hebrew daily Haaretz.
In 1972, Laor was jailed for refusing to serve in the occupied territories, and his leftist opinions, expressed in his work, have continually nettled Israel's mainstream establishment. In 2005, Laor founded and became editor of Mita'am, a Review of Literature and Radical Thought, which was a major arena for intellectual debate.
Laor has published many collections of poetry, as well as novels, short stories, collections of essays and one play. Among his literary awards: the Prime Minister's Prize, twice (1991; 2001), the Bernstein Prize for Poetry (1992), the Hebrew Literature Award (1994), the Moses Award (1998) and the Amichai Poetry Prize (2007).
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Books Published in Hebrew
| POETRY | Going Away, Sifriat Poalim, 1982 [Nesiʹah] | Only the Body Can Remember, Adam, 1985 [Rak Ha-Guf Zocher] | Poems in the Valley of Iron, Am Oved, 1990 [Shirim Be-Emek Ha-Barzel] | A Night in a Foreign Hotel, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1992 [Laila Be-Malon Zar] | And Loveth Many Days, Hakibbutz Hameuchad/Siman Kriah, 1996 [Ohav Yamim] | Poems, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1999 [Ke-Ayin] | Poems 1974-1992, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2002 [Shirim 1974-1992] | Leviathan City, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2004 [Ir Ha-Liviatan] | Let My Son Rise, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2007 [Yaʹamod Bni: Shirim 2005-2007] | The Herd Book, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2012 [Sefer Ha-Eder] | Selected Poetry: Selected and New Poems 1982-2016, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, Bialik Institute, 2017 [Hayim Echad: Nivchar Ve-Shirim Chadashim 1982-2016] | ----- | PROSE & DRAMA | Outside the Fence (stories), Keter, 1981 [Mehutz La-Gader] | Ephraim Goes Back to the Army (play), Timon, 1987 [Ephraim Hozer La-Tzava] | The People, Food for Kings
(novel)
, Hakibbutz Hameuchad/ Siman Kriah, 1993; Yedioth Ahronoth, 2013 [Am, Maʹachal Melachim] | Narratives With No Natives (essays), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1995 [Anu Kotvim Otach Moledet] | And With My Spirit My Corpse (novel), Hakibbutz Hameuchad/Siman Kriah/Yedioth Ahronoth, 1998 [Ve-Im Ruhi Geviyati] | Early Stories (stories), Keter, 2000 [Ba-Aviv Aharei Ha-Miluʹim] | Ecce Homo
(novel)
, Hakibbutz Hameuchad/ Siman Kriah, 2002 [Hineh Adam] | Things that Are Better (Not) Kept Silent (essays), Babel, 2002 [Dvarim She-Ha-Shtika (Lo) Yafa Lahem] | As Much As You Give Me
(novella & stories)
, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2006 [Vered Tzela: Sipurim] | Hanoch Levinʹs Drama (non-fiction), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2010 [Hanoch Levin: Monographya] | An Everlasting Love (novel), Yedioth Ahronoth, 2014 [Ahavat Olam] | The West Side (essays), Afik, 2017 [Tzad Ma'arav] | | |
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Books in Translation
German: Zurich, Unionsverlag, 2005 And With My Spirit My Corpse
German: Zurich, Unionsverlag, 2003
Ephraim Goes Back to the Army
Dutch: Amstelveen, Cypres, 1990
The Myths of Liberal Zionism
French original: Paris, la Fabrique, 2007
English: London, Verso, 2009
Spanish: Barcelona, Bellaterra, 2012
Greek: Athens, Agra, 2011 Selected Poems German: Berlin, Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2017
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