Creator Bio
Yitzhak Laor
b. 1948
Poet, playwright, novelist, and peace activist Yitzhak Laor was born in Pardes Hannah, Israel. Laor has published critical works on literature, as well as novels and poetry. He also writes about literature and politics for Haaretz. In 2005, he founded Mita’am: A Review of Literature and Radical Thought. Laor received the Prime Minister’s Prize in 2001 and the Yehuda Amichai Prize for Hebrew Poetry in 2007.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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The People, Food Fit for a King
The warden didn’t answer. He was scared to make a mistake, to say something that would be even more damaging to him, so he cleared his throat and didn’t say a word. The commander repeated his question…
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Shreds of Earth
On a night like this if a shudder were to shake your flesh as though a nightmare
had severed your sleep I could have risen and quietly walked to the kitchen
to write you a poem that would bring you…