The People, Food Fit for a King

Yitzhak Laor

1993

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: “Why did you hit him?” And the warden didn’t answer, persisted in not answering, and the question came back again and again and the shouts grew…

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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.

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