Haim Gouri

Haim Gouri is a poet, journalist, translator and Israeli Jewish scenario writer.

It engages, in 1941, in the Palmach, armed wing of the Haganah, Jewish clandestine organization who fought against the British for independence. In May 1947, it is sent by the Palmach in Europe, in order to repatriate the survivors of the Shoah. Returned to Israel, it takes part in the Israeli-Arab Guerre of 1948, then with the catch of Jerusalem in 1967, as captain of reserve. It is close to Yitzhak Rabin before its assassination and seeks an exit on the side of the reconciliation with the Palestinians: Even if the advent with the capacity of Hamas seems to bring back for us in 1947, the dialog is joined again… There is an immense tiredness on the two sides, you know. We are tired death… .

It translated into Hebrew French authors: Arthur Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Guillaume Apollinaire, Paul Claudel, Georges Duhamel, Marcel Pagnol… It received the Prix Sokolov for the Cage of glass (1962) and the Prix Bialik for Visions of Gihazi (poems, 1975).

Its first film is documentary: let us not let deaths bury deaths (1974) selected in Hollywood for a Oscar. the Doors of the sea received the money eagle of the festival of historical film, in France, in 1983.

Very marked by the israélo-Palestinian conflict, he declares: I am a civil war . In one of its poems, Civil war , it adds: A half of me shoots the other with the wall of overcome… . One finds his poems in an anthology of Arab and Jewish pacifist poems

References

Random links: