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Name
  
Rami Saari


Role
  
Poet

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Education
  
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Rami Saari (Hebrew: רמי סערי‎‎; b. 17 September 1963, Petah Tikva, Israel) is an Israeli poet, translator, linguist and literary critic.

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Thodoris Sklavounos reads Dorit Weisman's poem in Greek, that he and Rami Saari translated


Biography

Saari studied Semitic and Uralic languages at the Universities of Helsinki, Budapest and Jerusalem. He did his PhD in linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His doctoral thesis, "Maltese Prepositions", was published in 2003 by Carmel Publishing House.

Career

The author has published ten volumes of his own poetry and translated several dozen books of prose and poetry, from Albanian, Catalan, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Portuguese and Spanish. In 2002-2006, Saari was the national editor of the Israeli pages of the Poetry International website. Saari has won several Israeli literature awards.

Personal life

Since 2003 he lives and works in several different locales.

Awards and honors

  • In 1996 and 2003, Saari was awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Literature.
  • In 2006, he received the Tchernichovsky Prize for exemplary translation.
  • In 2010, he was awarded the Asraf Prize of the Academy of the Hebrew Language for his contribution to the enrichment of Hebrew literature.
  • Poetry

  • Hineh, Matzati et Beiti (Behold, I've Found My Home), Alef, 1988
  • Gvarim ba-Tzomet (Men at the Crossroad), Sifriat Poalim, 1991
  • Maslul ha-Ke'ev ha-No'az (The Path of Bold Pain), Schocken, 1997
  • Ha-Sefer ha-Chai (The Living Book), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2001
  • Kamah, Kamah Milkhamah (So Much, So Much War), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2002
  • Ha-Shogun ha-Khamishi (The Fifth Shogun), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2005
  • Taba'ot ha-Shanim (Rings of the Years), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2008
  • Mavo le-Valshanut Minit (Introduction to Sexual Linguistics), Carmel, 2013
  • Bnei Kafavis u-Nechdav (Cavafy's Sons and Grandsons), Carmel, 2015
  • Mesarim mi-Loikhpatlistan (Messages from Icouldntcarelessland), Carmel, 2016
  • Doctoral thesis

  • Milot ha-Yakhas ha-Malteziyot (Maltese Prepositions), Carmel, 2003
  • References

    Rami Saari Wikipedia