Rami Saari

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Rami Saari ( Hebrew רמי סערי) (Born September 17, 1963 in Petach Tikwa , Israel ) is an Israeli poet.

Life and work

As a toddler, he moved with his family to Argentina, where he learned Spanish as a second mother tongue. When Saari was four years old, the family moved back to Israel. When the family was in Israel, his mother no longer spoke to him in Spanish and he forgot the language. In high school, he learned Finnish on his own. At about 16 he successfully finished high school and worked as a volunteer in a kibbutz. After three months of military service in Israel, he was released early and then moved to Finland . There he studied Semitic and Finnish-Ugric Studies at the University of Helsinki . In 2003 he was awarded the title of Dr. phil. in linguistics for his dissertation The Maltese prepositions granted at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

Saari works as a literary translator, literary critic and lecturer in the Hebrew language. From 1988 to March 2012 he published seven books of his own Hebrew poetry and translated more than fifty books from Albanian, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Greek, Portuguese and Spanish into Hebrew.

For his poetry, he won the Prime Minister's Prize of Israel twice, in 1996 and 2003, the Olschwung Foundation Prize in 1998 and the Tschernikhovsky Prize in 2006 for his translations. His work has been translated into several languages. Since 2003 he has been living between apartments in Israel and Greece, mainly living and working in Athens .

Works

  • See there, I've found my way home (Hine, matzati et beyti, 1988)
  • People on the crossroads (Gvarim ba-tzomet, 1991)
  • The Path of Bold Pain (Maslul ha-ke'ev ha-no‛az, 1997)
  • The Book of Life (Ha-sefer ha-chay, 2001)
  • So much, so much war (Kama, kama milchama, 2002)
  • The Maltese prepositions (dissertation: Millot-ha-yachas ha-Malteziyyot, 2003)
  • The Fifth Shogun (Ha-shogun ha-chamishi, 2005)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Haaretz of March 26, 2012: A head in 1,001 places, a body in one
personal data
SURNAME Saari, Rami
ALTERNATIVE NAMES רמי סערי (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli author, poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Petach Tikwa , Israel