Amir Or
Mansour Visiting International Poet
Amir Or, poet, translator, and editor, is the author of seven volumes of poetry, as well as The Song of Tahira (2001), a fictional epic in metered prose. His poems have been published in more than 30 languages, as well as in eight volumes published in English and other European languages. He has been awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize, the Bernstein Prize, and a Fulbright Award, among others; as well as Fellowships from the University of Iowa, the Jewish-Hebrew Centre of the University of Oxford, The Literarische Colloquium, Fondación Valparaiso, and the Heinrich Böll Foundation. His later poetry books include Day which takes its cue from and interprets the Jewish Prayer book, and the bilingually written The Museum of Time, consisting of mental pictures and the species memory. He has translated from Greek, Latin, English and Japanese.
In 1993, Amir Or established the Arabic-Hebrew Helicon Poetry School and developed the school’s pioneering integrated methodologies in a series of subjects. Or is a founding member of the European Network of Creative Writing Programs and serves as national coordinator of the U.N.-sponsored Poets for Peace.
For more information,
- Visit his personal web site
- Read selected works at Lyrikline.org
- Read selected works at Molossus
- Read selected poems from Some Say at the Other Voices International Project
- Read several poems at Motherbird
- See his biography and various poems and articles at Eurozine
- Read a biography, bibliography and selected works at Diogen Plus
- Read his biography and selected works at Delhi International Literary Festival
- Read a biography, poems, and criticism on the Poetry International Web
- Read a selection of poems at Artvilla.com
- His poem "Miracle" at Poems Found in Translation
- Visit his Wikipedia page
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