Ronny Someck  (רוני סומק)
Author

Poems

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הבלדה על עמק האלכוהול hebrew

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קיצור תולדות הוודקה hebrew

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28 בדצמבר hebrew

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זה hebrew

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נשיקה hebrew

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30 שניות להסתער על הפטמה hebrew

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פקקים hebrew

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שיר פטריוטי hebrew

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עדות יופי hebrew

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טרקטורים hebrew

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Ronny Someck  רוני סומק
Author

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* 28.12.1951, Bagdad, Iraq
lives in: , Israel

Ronny Someck (born 1951, b. Bagdad, Iraq) came to Israel as a young child. He studied Hebrew Literature and Philosophy at Tel Aviv University and sketching at the Avni Art Academy.

Someck has worked as a counselor with street gangs and teaches literature and leads writing workshops. He began publishing in 1968. In 1997 he recorded with the musician Elliot Sharp the CD 'Revenge of the Stuttering Child' in New York. In 1998 Someck, together with artist Benny Efrat, showed an exhibition entitled 'Nature`s Factory' at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

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Individual poems of his have been published in Albanian, Arabic, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, and Ukrainian.

Someck has received the ACUM Special Jubilee Prize, the Prime Minister`s Prize and the Amichai Prize (2004).

Publications
  • [Exile]

    Poetry

    (Hebrew)

    Massada: Massada, 1976

  • [Solo]

    Poetry

    (Hebrew)

    Massada: Massada, 1980

  • [Asphalt]

    (Hebrew)

    Massada: Massada, 1984

  • [Seven Lines on the Wonder of the Yarkon]

    Poetry

    (Hebrew)

    Tel Aviv: Opatowsky/Tel Aviv Foundation, 1987

  • [Panther]

    Poetry

    (Hebrew)

    Tel Aviv: Zmora-Bitan, 1989

  • [Bloody Mary]

    Poetry

    (Hebrew)

    Tel Aviv: Zmora-Bitan, 1994

  • [Rice Paradise]

    Poetry

    (Hebrew)

    Tel Aviv: Zmora-Bitan, 1996

  • [The Laughter Button]

    Poetry (with Shirley Someck)

    (Hebrew)

    Tel Aviv: Zmora-Bitan, 1998

  • [The Milk Underground]

    Poetry

    (Hebrew)

    Tel Aviv: Zmora-Bitan, 2005

Awards
  • 1987 ACUM Special Jubilee Prize for a special achievement

  • 1989, 2000 Prime Minister's Prize

  • 1999 Afrat Prize

  • 1999 Ahi Prize

  • 2004 Amichai Prize

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