Haim Gouri

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Haim Gouri (Hebrew: חיים גורי, b. 1923) is an Israeli poet, novelist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Awards 3 Published work 3.1 Poetry 3.2 Fiction 3.3 Non-fiction 3.4 Documentary films 4 References

[edit] Biography

Haim Gouri was born in Tel Aviv. In 1941, Gouri joined the Palmach. In the summer of 1947, he was sent to Hungary and Czechoslovakia to organize the transfer of Holocaust survivors to Palestine. Gouri fought in the Six-Day War and served as an education officer in Sinai during the Yom Kippur War. In 1950-52, he studied Hebrew literature, philosophy and French culture at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. ^[1]

[edit] Awards

Gouri was awarded the Bialik Prize for Literature in 1975 and the Israel Prize for Poetry in 1988. The film The 81st Blow, which he wrote, co-produced, and co-directed, was nominated for the 1974 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. It is part of a powerful Holocaust trilogy that includes The Last Sea and Flames in the Ashes.^[2]

[edit] Published work

[edit] Poetry

Poems published in Hebrew:^[3]

• Pirhei Esh ("Flowers of Fire, Years of Fire"), 1949
• Ad A lot Ha-Shahar ("Till Dawn"), poetry and war diary, 1950
• Shirei Hotam ("Poems of the Seal"), 1954
• Shoshanat Ruhot ("Compass Rose"), 1960
• Tnuah Le-Mag`ah ("Movement to Touch"), 1968
• Mar`ot Gihazi ("Gehazi Visions"), 1974
• Ad Kav Ha-Nesher ("The Eagle Line"), 1975
• Ayuma 1979
• Mahbarot Elul ("Summer's End"), 1985
• Heshbon Over ("Current Account, Selected Poems"), 1988
• Ha-Ba Aharai ("Poems"), 1994
• Milim Be-Dami Holeh Ahavah ("Words in My Love-Sick Blood"), selected poems in English translation, trans: Stanley F. Chyet, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-8143-2594-7.
• Ha-Shirim ("The Poems"), in two volumes, 1998

Published in English Translation

[edit] Fiction

• The Chocolate Deal (1965). English translations: New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968, ISBN 1-125-15196-X. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8143-2800-8.
• The Crazy Book (1971)
• The Interrogation, The Story of Reuel (1980)

[edit] Non-fiction

• Facing the Glass Booth: the Jerusalem Trial of Adolf Eichmann (1962). English translation: Detroit: Wayne State University, 2004, ISBN 0-8143-3087-8.
• Pages of Jerusalem, notes (1968)

[edit] Documentary films

• The 81st Blow (Ha-Makah Hashmonim V'Echad, 1974), distributed with English subtitles by "American Federation of Jewish Fighters, Camp Inmates and Nazi Victims"
• The Last Sea (Ha-Yam Ha'Aharon, 1980)
• Flames in the Ashes (Pnei Hamered, 1985)

[edit] References

• "חיים גורי" (Haim Gouri) in the Hebrew-language Wikipedia. Retrieved May 29, 2005.
• "Haim Gouri" (capsule biography and bibliography) at the Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature.
• "Haim Gouri" in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).
• See The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself (2003), ISBN 0-8143-2485-1