Haim Gouri (b. October 1923) is an Israeli poet, novelist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker born in Tel Aviv and currently living in Jerusalem. After studying at the Kadoorie Agricultural High School, he joined the Palmach militia. In 1947 he was sent to Hungary to assist Holocaust survivors to come to Palestine. During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War he was a deputy company commander in the Palmach's Negev Brigade.[1]
He studied literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Sorbonne in Paris. His first book of poetry was published in 1949, and since then he published many more books. As a journalist her worked at Lamerhav and later Davar. He became famous for his coverage of the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann.[1].
He has been called "Israel's Poet." He was awarded the Bialik Prize for Literature in 1975 and the Israel Prize for Poetry in 1988.[2] The film The 81st Blow, which he wrote, co-produced, and co-directed, was nominated for the 1974 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.
His famous poem Imo ("his Mother") is a moving call for compassion and empathy for Israel's defeated enemies. On the other hand, Gouri was also one of those who called for "The Complete Land of Israel" to be incorporated into the state.
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Selected works
Poetry
- Flowers of Fire, Years of Fire (1949)
- Poems of the Seal (1954)
- Compass Rose (1960)
- Movement to Touch (1968)
- Gehazi Visions (1974)
- The Eagle Line (1975)
- Words in My Love-Sick Blood (selected poems in English translation). Detroit: Wayne State University, 1996, ISBN 0814325947.
- The Poems, in two volumes (1998)
Fiction
- The Chocolate Deal (1965). English translations: New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968, ISBN 112515196X. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999, ISBN 0814328008.
- The Crazy Book (1971)
- The Interrogation, The Story of Reuel (1980)
Non-fiction
- Facing the Glass Booth: the Jerusalem Trial of Adolf Eichmann (1962). English translation: Detroit: Wayne State University, 2004, ISBN 0814330878.
- Pages of Jerusalem, notes (1968)
Documentary films
- The 81st Blow (Ha-Makah Hashmonim V'Echad, 1974), distributed with English subtitles by "American Federation of Jewish Fighters, Camp Inmates and Nazi Victims"
- The Last Sea (Ha-Yam Ha'Aharon, 1980)
- Flames in the Ashes (Pnei Hamered, 1985)
Notes
- ^ a b Eli Elihau, First-person plural, Haaretz April 17, 2009. [1]
- ^ "Israel Prize Recipients from its Conception (in Hebrew)- list 4 - מקבלי פרס ישראל מראשיתו". http://www.education.gov.il/pras-israel/list4.htm. Retrieved on 2009-06-10.
References
- "חיים גורי" (Haim Gouri) in the Hebrew-language Wikipedia. Retrieved May 29, 2005.
- "Haim Gouri" (capsule biography and bibliography) at the Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature.
- "Haim Gouri" in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).
- See The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself (2003), ISBN 0814324851
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