Yitzhak Laor
Yitzhak Laor ( Hebrew יצחק לאור; * 1948 in Pardes Hanna-Karkur , Haifa district ) is an Israeli writer . The author, who works as a university lecturer and journalist, has made a name for himself with poetry, plays, essays, novels and volumes of short stories as well as a literary critic. The avowed anti-Zionist is considered the “enfant terrible” of the literary scene in Israel, as he is known as a sharp critic of the Israeli government policy in the Palestinian conflict.
Life
His German-Jewish father fled the Nazi regime in time in 1934 . His father moved from Bielefeld to Palestine , his mother emigrated from Riga .
Yitzhak Laor studied literature . Later he taught at Tel Aviv University in the Faculties of Theater and Film and later at the Jerusalem Film School . He regularly publishes literature reviews in the internationally known Israeli daily Ha'aretz . For London Review of Books , among others , he writes short essays, reports and feature sections on culture, society and politics in English.
In 1972, Laor was arrested for refusing to do military service in the occupied territories of Palestine. Since the 1980s, his critical poems and novels, which often dealt with the reality of military occupation and warfare, brought him as much hostility as encouragement and praise. His play Ephraim Hozer La-Tzavah ( Ephraim returns to the army ) is a parody of the antihero novel Ephraim Hozer La-Aspeset ( Ephraim returns to alfalfa , 1948) by the Israeli author S. Yizhar . Laor's drama was initially banned by the Israeli censorship agency "because it diminishes military rule in Judea and Samaria," but was cleared for performance by the Israeli Supreme Court of Appeals.
Works
- Ephraim Hozer La-Tzavah (Ephraim Returns to the Army. Play ). Timon, 1987.
- Am, Ma'achal Melachim (The People, Food for Kings. Roman). Hakibbutz Hameuchand, Tel Aviv 1993.
- Anu Kotvim Otach Moledet (Narratives With No Natives. Essays on Israeli Literature). Hakibbutz Hameuchand, Tel Aviv 1995 * stones, grids, voices , Unionsverlag, Zurich 2003. (orig. Hebrew 1998) ISBN 3-293-00314-1 .
- Ecce Homo . Unionsverlag, Zurich 2005. (original Hebrew 2002) ISBN 3-293-00353-2 .
- Ir Ha-Leviathan (Leviathan City. Poems). Hakibbutz Hameuchand, Tel Aviv 2004.
- On this earth that is wrapped in beauty and distrusts words . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95757-461-9 .
Awards
- Jehuda Amichaj Poetry Prize - 2007
- Prime Minister's Poetry Prize - 2001
- Noah Moses Prize for Literature for Ve-im Ruchi Gevijati (German: stones, grids, voices)
- Israel Literature Prize for Am, Ma'achal Melachim (The People, Food for Kings) 1994
- Bernstein Prize for Laila Be-Malon Zar (A Night in a Foreign Hotel) 1993
- Prime Minister's Poetry Prize - 1991
- Kugel Prize for Mehutz La-Gader (Outside the Fence, 1981)
Web links
- Literature by and about Yitzhak Laor in the catalog of the German National Library
- Review of the Dt. Wave to "Ecce Homo"
- Biographical notes from his German-language publisher
- Article by Yitzhak Laor on ZNet
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Laor: My father was German , in: Neue Westfälische of November 8, 2005, accessed from the pages of hiergeblieben.de
- ↑ Haaretz comment from March 27, 2012 "The blood merchants"
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Laor, Yitzhak |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | יצחק לאור (Hebrew) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pardes Hanna-Karkur , Haifa District |