Amir Or (אמיר אור)
Author

Poems

השפה אומרת hebrew

Translations: de en es ar ca fr el zh ro nl mk cs gd tr pl it

הַבַּרְבָּרִים: סִבּוּב שֵׁנִי hebrew

Translations: de en el ja es mk no pl ro zh tr

איפה הם hebrew

Translations: de en

בִּירָה hebrew

Translations: de en es el pl nl ro tr no mk

צֵל hebrew

Translations: de en ar pl zh it

מְשׁוֹרֵר hebrew

Translations: de en es pl ja zh it

בּוֹא hebrew

Translations: de en pl

אֵיךְ hebrew

Translations: de en es el pl zh it ro

יָרֵחַ hebrew

Translations: de en pl it

חוֹל וּזְמַן hebrew

Translations: en pl it

פְּרִיחָה hebrew

Translations: de en es ja pl

נֵס hebrew

Translations: de en nl pl

Amir Or אמיר אור
Author

About

* 01.07.1956, Tel Aviv, Israel
lives in: Tel Aviv, Israel

Amir Or (b.1956 in Tel Aviv, Israel), poet, translator and publisher, is one of Israel's most popular writers. He studied Philosophy and Comparative Religion in Jerusalem. The philologist's interest in Greek mythology is reflected in his poems, which have appeared so far in eight collections and have been translated into more than thirty languages. “The Song of Tahira” is an epic novel in metrical prose, while his poetry collection Day takes the Jewish Book of Prayer as its starting point and interprets it in his poetry, Or experiments with all the dialects of the ancient cultural language that is Hebrew in order to show the various periods in the development of languages.

Amir Or is the initiator and organiser of the Helicon Society for the Advancement of poetry in Israel, which has given its name since 1990 to a poetry journal, a press, a festival and an Arabic-Hebrew school for poets. Amir Or is Israel's representative in the 'Poets for Peace' project promoted by the UN and has taught Creative Writing at many universities.

He has received the Prize of the Prime Minister of Israel, the Bernstein Prize and the Holon Prize for his work.