Rami Saari

Rami Saari (; born 17 September 1963, Petah Tikva, Israel) 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.

Career The author has published fourteen volumes of his own poetry and translated more than one hundred 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.

Awards and honors 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.

Works (Hebrew) Poetry Hinneh, Matzati et Beti (Behold, I've Found My Home), Alef, 1988 Gvarim ba-Tzomet (Men at the Crossroad), Sifriat Poalim, 1991 Maslul ha-Ke'ev ha-No'az (The Path of Bold Pain), Schocken, 1997 Ha-Sefer ha-Xai (The Living Book), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2001 Kamma, Kamma Milxama (So Much, So Much War), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2002 Ha-Shogun ha-Xamishi (The Fifth Shogun), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2005 Tab'ot ha-Shanim (Rings of the Years), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2008 Mavo le-Valshanut Minit (Introduction to Sexual Linguistics), Carmel, 2013 Bnei Kafavis u-Nkhadav (Cavafy's Sons and Grandsons), Carmel, 2015 Mesarim mi-Loikhpatlistan (Messages from Icouldntcarelessland), Carmel, 2016 Doktor Yosefa ve-ha-pitgamim (Dr. Josepha and the Proverbs), Carmel, 2019 Enzimim ba-nefesh ve-yamim ke-tiqqunam (Enzymes in the Soul and Regularized Times), Carmel, 2021 Al miftan ensof ha-zman (On the Threshold of Endless Time), Rimonim, 2024 Ha-Adam, ha-'Am ve-ha-'Olam (The Human, the People and the World), Carmel, 2026

Doctoral thesis Milot ha-Yakhas ha-Malteziyot (Maltese Prepositions), Carmel, 2003