Meir Wieseltier (Photo: Courtesy of the family)
The poet and winner of the Israel Prize Meir Wieseltier passed away at the age of 82. Wieseltier is considered one of the most prominent and important poets and translators in the history of the country, professor emeritus in the Department of Literature at the University of Haifa.
He received the Israel Prize for Literature and Poetry in 2000. His granddaughter Dana Hafarti announced his death in a post he wrote on her Facebook.
Wieseltier was born in Moscow and immigrated to Israel as a small child.
He published about twenty books of poetry and translated dozens of books, including many plays by William Shakespeare.
Some of his songs were also composed, such as "I have sympathy", "Return to the orchard", "Take songs" (Church of the Mind) and "A gray light is falling again" (Monica Sex).
He published his first poems in the late 1950s in the magazine "Masha", when he was only 18 years old.
Later, he was one of the founders of the influential journal "Simen Kraya".
His breakthrough came in the 1960s, at the same time as other young poets such as Yair Horvitz and Yona Wallach.
Wieseltier translated dozens of books by other authors.
Among them, novels by Charles Dickens, Robert Graves, Aldous Huxley, Virginia Woolf, D.M.
Thomas and Joseph Heller.
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