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Rami Saari

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Rami Saari

Rami Saari (Hebrew: רמי סערי; b. 17 September 1963, Petah Tikva, Israel) is an Israeli poet, translator, linguist and literary critic.

Biography

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Saari studied Semitic and Uralic languages at the Universities of Helsinki, Budapest and Jerusalem. He did his PhD in linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1] His doctoral thesis, "Maltese Prepositions", was published in 2003 by Carmel Publishing House.

Career

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The author has published twelve volumes of his own poetry and translated several dozen books of prose and poetry, from Albanian, Catalan, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish.[1][2] In 2002-2006, Saari was the national editor of the Israeli pages of the Poetry International website. Saari has won several Israeli literature awards.[1]

Personal life

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Since 2003 he lives and works in several different locales.[1] He also holds Argentine and Finnish citizenships.[3]

Awards and honors

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  • In 1996 and 2003, Saari was awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Literature.
  • In 2006, he received the Tchernichovsky Prize for exemplary translation.
  • In 2010, he was awarded the Asraf Prize of the Academy of the Hebrew Language for his contribution to the enrichment of Hebrew literature.

Works (Hebrew)

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Poetry

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  • Hinneh, Matzati et Beti (Behold, I've Found My Home), Alef, 1988
  • Gvarim ba-Tzomet (Men at the Crossroad), Sifriat Poalim, 1991
  • Maslul ha-Ke'ev ha-No'az (The Path of Bold Pain), Schocken, 1997
  • Ha-Sefer ha-Xai (The Living Book), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2001
  • Kamma, Kamma Milxama (So Much, So Much War), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2002
  • Ha-Shogun ha-Xamishi (The Fifth Shogun), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2005
  • Tab'ot ha-Shanim (Rings of the Years), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2008
  • Mavo le-Valshanut Minit (Introduction to Sexual Linguistics), Carmel, 2013
  • Bnei Kafavis u-Nkhadav (Cavafy's Sons and Grandsons), Carmel, 2015
  • Mesarim mi-Loikhpatlistan (Messages from Icouldntcarelessland), Carmel, 2016
  • Doktor Yosefa ve-ha-pitgamim (Dr. Josepha and the Proverbs), Carmel, 2019
  • Enzimim ba-nefesh ve-yamim ke-tiqqunam (Enzymes in the soul and regularized times), Carmel, 2021

Doctoral thesis

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  • Milot ha-Yakhas ha-Malteziyot (Maltese Prepositions), Carmel, 2003

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "A head in 1,001 places, a body in one". Haaretz. March 26, 2012. Retrieved March 27, 2012.
  2. ^ Author's biography, Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature
  3. ^ "Rami Saari". Estonian Literature Centre [et]. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
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