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Agi Mishol
(Hungary, 1947)
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Agi Mishol was born in 1947 in Hungary to Holocaust survivor parents and came to Israel as a very young child. She earned her BA and MA in Hebrew Literature from the Hebrew University, her first volume of poetry appearing in 1972.
Co-winner of the first Yehuda Amichai Poetry Prize in 2002, (and a previous winner of the Tel Aviv Foundation and the Israeli Prime Minister’s awards) she is also a peach and persimmon farmer, and a teacher of poetry in the MA Creative Writing Program at Ben Gurion University, as well as other workshops venues, a teacher of literature at Alma College in Tel Aviv, a literary critic for radio and written media, and a translator of poetry and esoteric literature. Agi Mishol serves on the editorial board of the Helicon poetry journal. Her poetry has appeared in English in The American Poetry Review, The Mississippi Review Online, and in Leviathan Quarterly 2 & 4 (England), as well as other magazines, and in the anthology The Defiant Muse (Feminist Press/CUNY); a bilingual edition of 18 poems was published in Ireland in 1998.

Rami Saari  

Last updated: Feb 3, 2009

Interesting articles
Interview with Agi Mishol
The Comic Sybil

Interview
Israel's Poetry Reflects Story of a Nation
for PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

2 poems
'Woman Martyr' and 'Geese'
for PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

Books published in Hebrew
Nanny and Both of Us, [Nanny Ve-Shneinu], Ekked, 1972
A Cat's Scratch, [Srita Shel Hatul], Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1978
Gallop, [Gallop], Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1980
Plantation Notes, [Yoman Mata'], Keter, 1986
Fax Pigeon, [Yonat Faximilia], Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1991
The Interior Plain, [Ha-Shfela Ha-Pnimit], Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1995
See (edited by Nathan Zach), [Hinneh], Helicon-Tag, 1997
Look There [Re-e Sham], Helicon-Tag, 1999
The Dream Notebook, Even Hoshen, 2001 [Mahberet Ha-Halomot]Wax Flowers, [Nerot Netz-He-Halav], Even Hoshen, 2002
New and Selected Works, Bialik Press with Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2003


Books in Translation
The Swimmers, English: Dublin,Poetry Ireland, 1998 (Bilingual edition)Individual poems have been published in: Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

Links
Page on Agi Mishol by the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature
Language: English
Poems from The Dream Notebook in English translation
Language: English
'To the Muses' by Agi Mishol in English translation
Language: English
'In My Still Body' by Agi Mishol and other Hebrew poems in English translation
Language: English
'Hebrew Poetry in the New Millennium' article by Amir Or
Language: English
More poems of Agi Mishol
Language: Hebrew

Agi Mishol on Lyrikline

POEMS BY Agi Mishol


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