Poet, translator, painter, filmmaker, playwright, and publisher
David Avidan (1934-1995) was born in Tel Aviv, where he lived and
worked. A major force in contemporary Hebrew poetry and a leading
innovator and artist, Avidan published nineteen books of poetry, as
well as plays and children's books. His work has been translated
into twenty languages, and collections of his poems have been
published in Arabic, French, and Russian. He wrote and directed
four short films, including Sex,” which was shown at the Cannes
International Film Festival in 1971. He translated plays by
Chekhov, Brecht, and Friedrich Schiller, as well as Hamlet, and the
play adaptation of Allen Ginsberg’s Kaddish. His Collected Poems,
in four volumes, was published by Hakibbutz Hameuchad, Bialik
Institute in 2009-2011. Among his awards, he won the Abraham
Woursell Award from the University of Vienna, the Bialik Award, and
the Prime Minister Award.
Tsipi Keller was born in Prague, raised in Israel, studied in
Paris, and now lives in the U.S. Novelist and translator and the
author of eleven books, she is the recipient of several literary
awards, including National Endowment for the Arts Translation
Fellowships, New York Foundation for the Arts Fiction grants, and
an Armand G. Erpf Translation Award from Columbia University. Her
translations have appeared in literary journals and anthologies in
the U.S. and Europe, as well as in The Posen Library of Jewish
Culture and Civilization (Yale University Press, 2012). Her Poets
on the Edge: An Anthology of Contemporary Hebrew Poetry (SUNY
Press, 2008) has received many accolades, and deemed: "Not since
Carmi’s 1981 Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse has a volume of such
significance been published" (The Forward). Her most recent
collections are Raquel Chalfi’s Reality Crumbs (SUNY Press, 2015),
and Erez Bitton’s You Who Cross My Path (BOA Editions, 2015).
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