Agi Mishol is an Israeli

Israel

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 poet.

Biography

Mishol was born in Transylvania, Romania, to Hungarian-speaking parents and brought to Israel as a young child. Her parents ran a grocery store in Gedera

Gedera

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 and spoke mainly Hungarian at home. Mishol holds BA and MA degrees in Hebrew literature

Hebrew literature

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 from Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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. Mishol is married to Giora Fried and lives on a farm in Kfar Mordechai

Kfar Mordechai

Kfar Mordechai is a village in central Israel, located about 30 kilometers south of Tel Aviv, between Ashdod, Gedera and Yavne. The village was established in 1950 by British and South African Jews and by some ex-kibbutz members, near the ruins of a Palestinian Arab village called Bashshit...

. They have two children, Maya and Uri.

Literary career

Mishol is the author of a dozen volumes of poetry. Her most recent book is "House Call," published in Israel in summer of 2009. The title poem deals with her experience as the daughter of Holocaust survivors. Mishol has given poetry workshops at Israeli universities and teaches literature at the Alma College in Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

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Awards

Mishol won the Yehuda Amichai Prize in 2002 and the Dolitsky Prize in 2007. A collection of her work in English, "Look There" (translated by Lisa Katz) was published in 2006.

Published works

• Things Happen, Hakibbutz Hameuhad & Mossad Bialik [Korim Dvarim]
• Nanny and Both of Us, Ekked, 1972 [Nanny Ve-Shneinu]
• A Cat's Scratch, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1978 [Srita Shel Hatul]
• Gallop, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1980 [Gallop]
• Plantation Notes, Keter, 1986 [Yoman Mata]
• Fax Pigeon, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1991 [Yonat Faximilia]
• The Interior Plain, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1995 [Ha-Shfela Ha-Pnimit]
• See (edited by Nathan Zach
  Nathan Zach
  Nathan Zach is an Israeli poet.-Biography:Born in Berlin, Germany, to a German father and an Italian mother, Zach immigrated to what was then known as Palestine in 1936 and served in the IDF during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War....
  
  ), Helikon-Tag, 1997 [Hineh]
• Look There, Helikon-Tag, 1999 [Re`eh Sham]
• Dream Notebook, Even Hoshen, 2000 [Machberet Ha-Chalomot]
• Wax Flower, Even Hoshen, 2002 [Nerot Netz Ha-Chalav]
• Selected and New Poems, Mossad Bialik & Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2003 [Mivchar Ve-Chadashim]
• Moment, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2005

English translations

• Look There: New and Selected Poems of Agi Mishol (translated by Lisa Katz), Graywolf Press
• The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself
  The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself
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External links

• http://www.forward.com/articles/11633/ Music From Her Own Mind, A review of Agi Mishol's work