Author, poet and researcher, Prof. Yoel Hoffman, winner of the Creative Prize for Writers and Poets, the Bialik Prize and the Neumann Prize, passed away Friday evening at the age of 86.
"The Book of Joseph", "How are you, Dolores" and "Moods" are among his books, which were milestones in shaping and forming the literary language in Israel. Through anecdotal writing, elusive plots, and aesthetic tools that he used in a unique way – he made a name for himself as an exceptional writer. His writing was critically acclaimed and resonated around the world, and his books have been translated into English, Italian, German and French.
In addition to writing books of prose and poetry, he researched and translated Japanese culture and poetry, and served as a professor in the Department of Hebrew Literature and Comparative Literature and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Haifa.
One of Hoffman's most important books is Curriculum Vitae, published in 2007. "My mother died on January 27, 1941. I was three and a half years old at the time. When I was seven or eight years old, my father remarried, and shortly after that marriage he asked me to call my stepmother "Mom."
The opening line of "Curriculum Vitae" is the code inherent in all of his books—from "Barnhart" in 1989 to "Moods" in 2010.
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