Rami Saari ( he, רמי סערי; b. 17 September 1963,

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) is an

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poet, translator, linguist and literary critic.

Biography

Saari studied Semitic and

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at the Universities of

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and

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

. He did his PhD in

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at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

. His doctoral thesis, "Maltese Prepositions", was published in 2003 by Carmel Publishing House.

Career

The author has published twelve volumes of his own poetry and translated several dozen books of prose and poetry, from

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, Hungarian,

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and Turkish. 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. He also holds Argentine and Finnish citizenships.

Awards and honors

*In 1996 and 2003, Saari was awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Literature. *In 2006, he received the

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for exemplary translation. *In 2010, he was awarded the Asraf Prize of the

Academy of the Hebrew Language The Academy of the Hebrew Language ( he, הָאָקָדֶמְיָה לַלָּשׁוֹן הָעִבְרִית, ''ha-akademyah la-lashon ha-ivrit'') was established by the Israeli government in 1953 as the "supreme institution for scholarship on t ...

for his contribution to the enrichment of Hebrew literature.

Works (Hebrew)

Poetry

* ''Hinneh, Matzati et Beti'' (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-Xai'' (The Living Book), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2001 * ''Kamma, Kamma Milxama'' (So Much, So Much War), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2002 * ''Ha-Shogun ha-Xamishi'' (The Fifth Shogun), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2005 * ''Tab'ot ha-Shanim'' (Rings of the Years), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2008 * ''Mavo le-Valshanut Minit'' (Introduction to Sexual Linguistics), Carmel, 2013 * ''Bnei Kafavis u-Nkhadav'' (Cavafy's Sons and Grandsons), Carmel, 2015 * ''Mesarim mi-Loikhpatlistan'' (Messages from Icouldntcarelessland), Carmel, 2016 * ''Doktor Yosefa ve-ha-pitgamim'' (Dr. Josepha and the Proverbs), Carmel, 2019 * ''Enzimim ba-nefesh ve-yamim ke-tiqqunam'' (Enzymes in the soul and regularized times), Carmel, 2021

Doctoral thesis

* ''Milot ha-Yakhas ha-Malteziyot'' (Maltese Prepositions), Carmel, 2003

References

External links

*https://www.ramisaari.com/rami-saari/ Saari's official web-site *http://library.osu.edu/projects/hebrew-lexicon/00198 Modern Hebrew Literature *http://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-leisure/a-head-in-1-001-places-a-body-in-one-1.420744 - An interview with the poet and translator

An interview in Spanish made by the journalist Maya Siminovich where Rami Saari talks about his literary work (April 2019). {{DEFAULTSORT:Saari, Rami 1963 births Living people Israeli poets Translators to Hebrew Translators from Albanian Translators from Catalan Translators from Estonian Translators from Finnish Translators from Greek Translators from Hungarian Translators from Portuguese Spanish–Hebrew translators Translators from Turkish Linguists from Israel Israeli translators Hebrew-language poets Modern Hebrew writers Israeli LGBT poets Argentine people of Israeli descent Finnish people of Israeli descent Recipients of Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works Naturalized citizens of Finland