Ronny Someck


Ronny Someck is an Israeli poet, painter and author.

Biography

Ronny Someck was born in Baghdad. His family immigrated to Israel when he was a young. He studied Hebrew literature and philosophy at Tel Aviv University and drawing at the Avni Academy of Art.

Academic and literary career

Somech teaches literature and leads creative writing workshops.
Someck has published 16 volumes of poetry and authored 2 children's book together with his daughter Shirly, that have been translated into 45 languages.
Selections of his poems have appeared in Arabic translation, French, Catalan, Albanian, Italian, Macedonian, Croatian, Yiddish, Nepali, Dutch, Danish, Spanish, Portuguese and English.

Music and art career

He has recorded three discs with the musician Elliott Sharp: Revenge of the Stuttering Child, Poverty Line, and A Short History of Vodka.
As a visual artist, he has presented several notable exhibitions, including Nature’s Factory, Winter 2046, a collaborative exhibition with Benni Efrat at the Israel Museum in 1998, Two Times Chai at the Beit Avi Chai Gallery in Jerusalem, curated by Amichai Chasson, and Friends in Ink at the University of Haifa Gallery, curated by Philip Rantzer.
He is a member of the Public Council of the Batsheva Dance Company and the Hebrew-Arabic Theatre.

Published works

  • fire
  • The Offside of love
  • Hermes
  • So much god
  • Revenge of the Stuttering Child
  • Horse power
  • Algeria
  • The Milk Underground
  • The Revolution Drummer
  • Rice Paradise
  • Bloody Mary
  • Panther
  • Seven Lines on the Wonder of the Yarkon
  • Asphalt
  • Solo
  • Exile
For children:
  • The Laughter Button with Shirly Someck
  • Monkey Tough, Monkey Bluff with Shirly Someck
In Albanian
  • The Sign of the Bite
  • Prekla e te Qeshurit
In Arabic:
  • Jasmine
  • And the poem is a gangster's girl
  • "Lion's Milk"
  • " i love her and let the world burn"
In Catalan:
  • En paper de vidre
  • Amor Pirata
In Croatian
  • Poems
In English:
  • The Fire Stays in Red
  • "The milk underground"
In French:
  • Nes a Bagdad with A.K. El Janabi
  • Constat de Beaute
  • Bagdad Jerusalem with Salach Al Hamdani
  • Le Baiser de la Poesie, 24 Poemes d'amour de Yehuda Amichai et Ronny Someck
  • "Le piano ardent"
  • Lettre imaginaires"
  • cristal blues"
  • La poesie n'est pas une metaphore
In Italian
In Macedonian
  • weat
  • Asphalt Dragons
In Nepali
In Yiddish
  • I am a pajama Iraqi
In Dutch
  • "Blues van de derde zoen"
  • " Mug Shot "
in Danish
  • " Solens fine pensel"
In Portuguese
  • "Left foot goal"
In German
  • "Nagel"
In Spanish
  • "El Paraiso del Arroz"
In Russian
  • "The Leopard and the Glass Slipper".tr:Lena Baibikov. Knizhnoe obozrenie : Moscow, 2014
In Turkish
  • "The Ballad of Alcohol valley". Tr: Muesse Yeniay.. Turkey 2014
Translations of his poems have appeared in anthologies and poetry journals in 41 languages.

Awards and recognition

He is the recipient of the Prime Minister's Award, Yehuda Amichai Award for Hebrew poetry, The "Wine poem award" in Struga Poetry Evenings, Macedonia, 2005 and Hans Berghhuis prize for poetry 2006 at the Maastricht International Poetry Nights, the Netherlands.
In 2012 he was awarded the Cross of The Order of The Knights for a Distinguished Service of Poland.
In 2013 he was awarded the knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France.
In 2016 he was awarded the exemplary man of the "Lions International".
In 2017 he received a college prestige of the Arab Academic College for Education in Israel in Haifa.
  • ACUM special Jubilee Prize for a special achievement, 1987.
  • Prime Minister's Prize, 1989, 2000.
  • Afrat Prize, 1999.
  • Ahi Prize, 1999
  • Yehuda Amichai prize for Hebrew poetry
  • "wine poem award" Struga Poetry Evenings, Macedonia, 2005
  • Hans Berghhuis prize for poetry 2006.the Maastricht International Poetry Nights. Holand
  • Ramat Gan prize for poetry 2010
  • He was awarded the exemplary man of the "Lions International" in 2016
  • Meir Ariel Prize for Creativity in the Hebrew Language
  • Erez Biton Prize