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Amir Or (born 1956), is an Israeli editor, translator and award-winning poet whose works have been published in more than 40 languages.〔() Levin, Lynn, "Israeli Poet Amir Or: A Conversation About Language, Myth, and the Soul" at the "Poetry Life and Times" Web site, accessed December 10, 2006〕 He is the author of eleven volumes of poetry as of late 2014, and his latest books in Hebrew are ''Heart Beast (2010), The Madman's Prophecy (2012) and Loot (selected poems 1977-2013)''(2013).〔 Individual poems by Amir Or have been published in English, German, Danish, Dutch, Shetlandic, Swedish, Norwegian, French,Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Romanian, Welsh, Gaelic, Irish, Greek, Armenian,Albanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian, Macedonian, Slovak, Czech, Latvian,Lithuanian, Georgian, Persian, Hindi, Malayalam, Kanada, Telugu, Arabic,Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Finnish and Estonian.〔 ==Biography== Or was born in Tel Aviv, and besides other jobs he has worked as a shepherd, builder and restaurateur.〔() Artvilla.com Web site, Web page titled "Amir Or -- Bio:", accessed December 10, 2006〕 He studied philosophy and comparative religion at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he later lectured on Ancient Greek Religion. He has published essays on poetry, classics and religious studies, and has taught creative writing in universities in Israel, Europe, USA and Japan.〔 In 1990 he founded "Helicon Society, Israel" and has been Editor-in-Chief of Helicon's journal and series of poetry books. In 1993 he set up the Arabic-Hebrew Helicon Poetry School and has founded and directed the Sha’ar International Poetry Festival. Or has also edited other literary journals and several anthologies of Hebrew verse in European languages. He serves as editor of the Catuv poetry books series, as national editor of the international poetry magazines Atlas and Blesok, and as a national coordinator for the U.N. sponsored UPC venture, “Poets for Peace.” He is a founding memberof the EACWP (European Association of Creative Writing Programs) of theinternational Circle of Poets and of the WPM (World Poetry Movement).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amir Or」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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