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Roy Hasan (Hebrew: רועי חסן) (born 9 April 1983, in Hadera, Israel) is an Israeli contemporary Hebrew poet. He is a principal member of the Ars poetica literary movement. In 2015 Hasan was awarded the 2015
Bernstein Prize The Bernstein Prize is an annual Israeli literary award for writers 50 years of age and younger. The prize is awarded by the Bernstein Foundation, named after Mordechai Bernstein, who left money in his estate to establish a foundation in order to ...
. Hasan grew up in a Mizrahi family in a lower-class neighborhood in a lower-class town, and worked as a cook during his mandatory military service. He continue to work as a low-paid cook after returning to civilian life. His poetry is regarded as part of a Mizrachi rebellion against the
Ashkenazi Ashkenazi Jews ( ; he, יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכְּנַז, translit=Yehudei Ashkenaz, ; yi, אַשכּנזישע ייִדן, Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or ''Ashkenazim'',, Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: , singu ...
and elitist Israeli left-wing political and literary establishment.


Selected works

*The dogs that barked in our childhood were muzzled, ''Haklavim shenavhu beyaldutenu hayu hasumei pe'' ( he, הכלבים שנבחו בילדותנו היו חסומי פה) (Poetry), Tangier (טנג'יר), 2014) *No Other Memory (Hebrew: אין זיכרון אחר) (Prose), Home Mansion (Publishing), 2018 *Gold Lions (Hebrew: זהב אריות) (Songs), Tangier Publishing, 2017


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hasan, Roy Hebrew-language poets 21st-century Israeli poets 1983 births People from Hadera Bernstein Prize recipients Living people