Agi Mishol

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Agi Mishol, around 2010
Agi Mishol, around 2010

Agnes (Agi) Mishol (born October 20, 1946, some sources name 1947 in Transylvania , Romania ) is an Israeli poet. She is considered one of the most popular and important poets of her generation in Israel.

Life

Agi Mishol was born in 1946/1947 as the second daughter of Holocaust survivors of Hungarian origin in Transylvania , Romania . Her older sister was murdered in Auschwitz . After the family emigrated to Israel in 1950 (other sources: 1951), Agi grew up in the city of Gedera , where the parents ran a repair shop. After graduating from school, she did her military service in a nuclear facility in Dimona . During this time, she began studying literature at Ben Gurion University in Be'er Sheva and self-published her first book.

A first marriage she entered into at the age of nineteen ended in divorce in less than a year, and she went to Jerusalem to study for a bachelor's and master's degree in Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University . After graduation, she married Giora Mishol, a farmer with whom she moved to the moshav Kfar Mordechai south of Tel Aviv , which became their home together. Their first child died at the age of a few weeks; the couple had two more children, a daughter and a son.

Mishol taught at schools and universities for many years. From 1976 to 2001 she taught literature at a school in Be'er Tuvia , and she also gave courses in creative writing at several universities. After Agi Mishol was awarded the Dolitsky Prize in 2007, she worked as a poet in residence at the Hebrew University . She also worked as a lecturer and mentor at the Alma Center for Hebrew Culture in Tel Aviv, the Weizmann Institute and the Helicon School of Poetry in Tel Aviv, which she also directed.

Since 2014 she has been awarded three honorary doctorates from Israeli universities; Her literary legacy was taken over by the Israeli National Library in 2017.

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Overall, Agi Mishol published a double-digit number of volumes of poetry. Her first collection of poems appeared in 1968, followed by three more in the 1970s, before a seven-year hiatus followed. The literary breakthrough for Mishol came relatively late with the Yoman Mata collection published in 1986 (German, for example, "Notes from the Plantation", mostly English Plantation Notes).

The renowned Bialik Institute published a collection of their complete works in 2003, and another retrospective appeared in 2015.

Translations of her work have appeared in numerous anthologies around the world, and books have been published in France, Great Britain, Romania, China and Argentina. A volume of poetry was published in translation in 2006 under the English title Look There.

Mishol's poems combine her personal, private environment - love and eroticism, the "wonders of nature", people and the environment - with a reflection on Israeli society. She is not considered a political author, although her work also relates to social or political issues. Her view, for example of the “Zionist sanctification of agricultural work” is often ironic, but she develops her very own relationship to the country, which is shaped by her feminine gaze. Her poems sought "Again and again [...] the balance between serenity and being carried away, this" dense material of alchemy "in which" approach "and" distance "[kept]"

Mishol was involved in the Poetica literature festival in Cologne in 2019 and 2020 . She described her way of working as a search for a “state of 'dozing and staring', in which one unwantedly wanted to be 'relaxed and tense at the same time' ”. Writing is only possible in this state. Some of her works have been translated into German in the festival's anthologies.

Awards (selection)

  • Lerici Pea Golfo dei Poeti, Premio alla Carriera (2014)
  • Israeli Prime Minister Prize (1995)
  • Kugel Literary Award (2000)
  • Yehuda Amichai Prize (2002)
  • Dolitsky Prize (2007)
  • Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works (Levi Eshkol Literary Award, 1994 or 1995)
  • International Zbigniew Herbert Literature Prize, Poland (Międzynarodowa Nagroda Literacka im. Zbigniewa Herberta, 2019)
  • Honorary doctorate from Bar Ilan University (2018)
  • Honorary doctorate from the Weizmann Institute for Science (2016)
  • Honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University (2014)

Publications

(in German translation)

  • Tadeusz Dabrowski, Herta Müller, Erik Lindner, Luljeta Lleshanaku , Agi Mishol: Resistance. The Art of Resistance: poetica 6th Festival for World Literature . Anthology. konkursbuch, Tübingen 2020, ISBN 978-3-88769-485-2 ( dnb.de [accessed January 25, 2020]).
  • Mircea Cărtărescu, Oswald Egger, Christian Kracht, Mara Lee, Lebogang Mashile: Rausch: = States of euphoria: Poetica 5 . Anthology. konkursbuch Verlag Claudia Gehrke, Tübingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-88769-698-6 ( dnb.de [accessed January 25, 2020]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d אגי משעול (1946). In: library.osu.edu. The Ohio State University, accessed January 22, 2020 (Hebrew).
  2. ↑ Stanley Burnshaw: The Modern Hebrew poem itself . Ed .: Stanley Burnshaw, Susan Glassman, T. Carmi, Ezra Spicehandler, Ariel Hirschfeld. New and updated ed. Wayne State University Press, Detroit, MI 2003, ISBN 0-8143-2485-1 , pp. 11 ( digitized version in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ a b c Agi Mishol (poet). In: poetryinternational.org. Poetry International, April 2, 2015, accessed January 22, 2020 .
  4. ^ A b Moving into the Archives: Influential Israeli Poet Agi Mishol Deposits Her Personal Archive in the National Library of Israel. In: web.nli.org.il. Retrieved January 25, 2020 (American English).
  5. ↑ a b Miriyam Glazer: Dreaming the actual: contemporary fiction and poetry by Israeli women writers (=  SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture ). State University of New York Press, Albany, NY 2000, ISBN 978-0-7914-9269-7 , pp. 334 ( digitized in Google book search).
  6. ^ Cultural and Scientific Relations Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ed.): Ariel, Edition 104-108 . 1997.
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g h Vered Lee: Poet Agi Mishol Is Surprised She's Become Hot Stuff . In: Haaretz . May 17, 2012 ( Haaretz.com [accessed January 22, 2020]).
  8. ↑ Numerous biographical accounts name Hungary as the country of birth. Parts of Transylvania / Transylvania were Hungarian 1940-1944 and then came back to Romania. The final determination of the borders took place in 1946/47 by the Paris Peace Conference .
  9. ↑ Agi Mishol. In: ithl.org.il. The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature (ITHL), accessed January 22, 2020 .
  10. ↑ a b c d e f Agi Mishol | International Board 2016. 2016, accessed January 25, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Shirley Kaufman, Galit Hasan-Rokem, Tamar Hess (eds.): Hebrew feminist poems from antiquity to the present: a bilingual anthology (=  Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish women's series ). 1st ed. Feminist Press at the City University of New York, New York 1999, ISBN 1-55861-223-8 , pp. 20-21 .
  12. ^ "Excited States" Readings and discussions with Mircea Cărtărescu, Christian Kracht and Agi Mishol. In: poetica.uni-koeln.de. January 2019, accessed January 25, 2020 .
  13. ↑ The "Poetica 5" takes off. Retrieved January 25, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Premio alla Carriera 2014. In: lericipea.com. Premio Lerici Pea Golfo dei Poeti, 2014, accessed on January 23, 2020 (it-IT).
  15. ↑ a b c Agi Mishol. In: STELLWERK | Text. Image. Stage. Institute for German Language and Literature I at the University of Cologne, January 21, 2019, accessed on January 23, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Agi Miszol laureatką Nagrody im. Herberta ( pl ) March 11, 2019.
  17. ↑ Bar-Ilan University to Award Honorary Doctorates to Eight Outstanding Individuals and Organizations | Bar Ilan University ( en )
  18. ↑ PhD honoris causa recipient: Agi Mishol | Israeli poet Recipient of a PhD honoris causa. May 29, 2017, accessed January 25, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Certificate. (PDF) Tel Aviv University, May 14, 2014, accessed January 25, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Mishol, Agi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mishʿol, Agi; Mishol, Agnes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli poet
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Transylvania