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Tel Aviv Tales
with Amir Or

Thursday 9 November 7.30pm
Glyn Jones Centre, Cardiff Bay

Amir Or has worked as a shepherd, a builder and a restauranteur but it’s his literary work that he’ll be discussing here.  In an evening introduced by poet and critic Grahame Davies, this is a rare chance to hear Amir Or read and discuss his work.

Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, Or has published articles and essays on literature, theology and the classics, and has translated poetry from Greek, Latin and English among other languages.  He has published several collections of poetry in Hebrew, many of which have been translated into English.

His collections of poetry include I Look Through the Monkey’s Eyes (1987), Faces (1991), Ransoming the Dead (1994), So! (1995) Poem (1996) and Day (1998). His last book The Song of Tahira (2001) is a prose book.  Or has received the Prime Minister literature award, the Mordechai Bernstein prize from the Israeli Publisher Association, Tel Aviv and Bat Yam literary awards and the Culture Minister’s honorary award for his translations of classical Greek poetry.

Grahame Davies is a poet, editor and critic.  He is the editor of the poetry anthology The Chosen People – Wales and the Jews (Seren, 2002), and co-editor of The Big Book of Cardiff (Seren, 2005) and Gwyl y Blaidd: The Festival of the Wolf (Parthian, 2006).

Free entry
Please reserve your ticket in advance, as spaces are limited
For more information contact Academi
029 2047 2266 or post@academi.org