Agi Mishol

Agi Mishol is an established Israeli poet and creative writing teacher and has published sixteen volumes of poetry. Some of her poems have translated into many languages, including Look There (in English, by Graywolf Press), Journal du verger (in French, by Caratères), Ropa Tendida (in Spanish, by Poesía Mayor), and Şheherezada (in Romanian, by Institutul Cultural Român). Mishol has received the Prime Minister’s Award, the Yehuda Amichai Prize and many other awards. This year, she was nominated by Tel Aviv University as Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa and received the Lerici-Pea prize in Italy. Mishol is currently the director of the “Helicon” school of poetry in Tel Aviv.