Rami Saari

Rami Saari (Hebrew רמי סערי, born in 1963 in Petah Tikva, Israel) is an Israeli poet.

Life and work

As a small child he moved with his family to Argentina, where she learned Spanish as a second language. As Saari was four years old, the family had moved back to Israel. In high school he learned on his own Finnish. He completed his undergraduate studies from a master's degree and specialized in after completing his military service in Israel in the fields of Semitic and Finno-Ugric studies at the University of Helsinki in Finland. He was awarded the Ph.D. title in 2003. granted in linguistics for his thesis The Maltese prepositions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Saari has worked as a literary translator, literary critic and professor of the Hebrew language. Since 1988 to March 2012, he has published seven volumes of poetry and translated Hebrew own more than fifty books from the Albanian, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Greek, Portuguese and Spanish into Hebrew.

For his poetry he has won twice, in 1996 and 2003, the price of the Prime Minister of Israel, as well as the price of Olschwung Foundation in 1998 and the price Tschernikhovsky in 2006 for his translations. His work has been translated into several languages. Since 2003 he spends his life between homes in Israel and Greece, where he mainly lives and works in Athens.

Works

• Behold, I will punish found ( Hine et matzati beyti, 1988)
• People at the crossroads ( Gvarim ba - Tzomet, 1991)
• The path of the bold Pain ( Maslul ha - ha - ke'ev 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 - ha - yachas Malteziyyot, 2003)
• The Fifth Shogun ( Ha - ha - shogun chamishi, 2005)