Ronny Someck (; born 1951) is an

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i poet, painter and author.

Biography

Ronny Someck was born in

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. His family immigrated to Israel when he was a young. He studied

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and philosophy at

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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 (''The Laughter Button'' and ''Monkey Tough, Monkey Bluff''), 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

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: ''Revenge of the Stuttering Child'', ''Poverty Line'', and ''A Short History of Vodka''. In 1998 he mounted an exhibition “Nature's Factory, winter 2046” with Beny Efrat at the

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. He is a member of the Public Council of the

Batsheva Dance Company The Batsheva Dance Company (Hebrew: להקת בת שבע) is a renowned dance company based in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was founded by Martha Graham and Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild in 1964. Its inception was inspired by Israel's growing inter ...

and the Hebrew-Arabic Theatre.

Published works

* '' fire'' (2024) * '' The Offside of love'' (2023) * '' Hermes'' (2022) * '' So much god'' (2020) * ''Revenge of the Stuttering Child'' (2017) * ''Horse power'' (2013) * ''Algeria'' (2009) * ''The Milk Underground'' (2005) * ''The Revolution Drummer'' (2001) * ''Rice Paradise'' (1996) * ''Bloody Mary'' (1994) * ''Panther'' (1989) * ''Seven Lines on the Wonder of the Yarkon'' (1987) * ''Asphalt'' (1984) * ''Solo'' (1980) * ''Exile'' (1976) For children: * ''The Laughter Button'' with Shirly Someck (1998) * ''Monkey Tough, Monkey Bluff'' with Shirly Someck (2012) In Albanian * ''The Sign of the Bite'' (2001, Tirane) * ''Prekla e te Qeshurit'' (2006, Tirane) In Arabic: * ''Jasmine'' (1994, Israel) * ''And the poem is a gangster's girl'' (1996, Paris) * "Lion's Milk" (2010 Cairo) *" i love her and let the world burn" (2022, Israel) In Catalan: * ''En paper de vidre'' (2000, Barcelona) * ''Amor Pirata'' (2006, Barcelona) In Croatian * ''Poems'' (Special edition on the occasion of Literature Live Festival. 2008, Zagreb) In English: * ''The Fire Stays in Red'' (2002, USA) * "The milk underground" (White Pine Press - Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation 2015 USA) In French: * ''Nes a Bagdad'' with A.K. El Janabi (1998, Paris) * ''Constat de Beaute'' (Edition PHI, 2008, Luxembourg) * ''Bagdad Jerusalem ''with Salach Al Hamdani(Edition s Bruno Doucey, Paris 2012) * ''Le Baiser de la Poesie'', 24 Poemes d'amour de

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et Ronny Someck (edition Levant, Paris 2016) * "Le piano ardent"(Editions Bruno Doucey, Paris 2017) * Lettre imaginaires" (Edition Segust, 2021) * cristal blues"(Edition Segust, 2022) * La poesie n'est pas une metaphore (Edition Levant 2023) In Italian * ''Il Rosso Catalogo della Parola Tramonto'' with Fausta Squatriti (NOLA) * ''Il Bambino Balbuziente'' (Mesogea, Sicily 2008) 2002) In Macedonian * ''weat'' (2005, Skopje) *''Asphalt Dragons'' (2011, Skopje) In Nepali *''Baghdad, February 1991'' Translated into Nepali by Yuyutsu RD Sharma, (Nirala Publications, 2010, New Delhi in collaboration with White Lotus Book Shop, Kathmandu) In Yiddish * ''I am a pajama Iraqi'' (H.Levick Publishing House, Tel Aviv) In Dutch * "Blues van de derde zoen"(Azul Press.Maasticht 2010) * " Mug Shot "(with Hans van de Waarsenburg) Azul Press.Maasticht 2012) in Danish * " Solens fine pensel" (Forlagrt Goldberg & Mor. Copenhagen 2010) In Portuguese * "Left foot goal"(annablume.brazil 2012) In German * "Nagel" (Azul Press 2012) In Spanish * "El Paraiso del Arroz" (Leviatan 2013) In Russian * "The Leopard and the Glass Slipper".tr:Lena (Elena) Baibikov. Knizhnoe obozrenie (ARGO-RISK): Moscow, 2014 In Turkish * "The Ballad of Alcohol valley". Tr: Muesse Yeniay. (Siiri). 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,

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 (The Association for the Promotion of Research, Literature and Art, founded in Israel by Jews from Iraq), 1999 * Yehuda Amichai prize for Hebrew poetry (2005) * "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 (2019) * Erez Biton Prize (2024)

References

External links

* http://www.ronnysomeck.com/ * * The Emperor of Emotions, by Yuyutsu RD Sharma
Himalayan Times
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