Rami Saari

Rami Saari is an Israeli poet, translator, linguist and literary critic.

Biography

Saari studied Semitic and Uralic languages at the Universities of Helsinki, Budapest and Jerusalem. He did his PhD in linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His doctoral thesis, "Maltese Prepositions", was published in 2003 by Carmel Publishing House.

The author has published twelve volumes of his own poetry and translated several dozen books of prose and poetry, from Albanian, Catalan, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish. In 2002-2006, Saari was the national editor of the Israeli pages of the Poetry International website. Saari has won several Israeli literature awards.

Since 2003 he lives and works in several different locales. He also holds Argentine and Finnish citizenships.

In 1996 and 2003, Saari was awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Literature.
In 2006, he received the Tchernichovsky Prize for exemplary translation.
In 2010, he was awarded the Asraf Prize of the Academy of the [Hebrew Language] for his contribution to the enrichment of Hebrew literature.