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Haim Gouri (Hebrew: חיים גורי; né Gurfinkel; 9 October 1923 – 31 January 2018) was an Israeli poet, novelist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker. Widely regarded as one of the country's greatest poets, he was awarded the Israel Prize for poetry in 1988, as well as being the recipient of several other prizes of national distinction.

Haim Gouri
Haim Gouri (2005)
Born	Haim Gurfinkel (1923-10-09)9 October 1923 Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
Died	31 January 2018(2018-01-31) (aged 94) Jerusalem, Israel
Citizenship	Israel
Alma mater	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; the Sorbonne
Occupation	Poet, novelist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker
Awards	1961 Sokolow Award for Israeli Journalism 1975 Bialik Prize for literature 1988 Israel Prize for Hebrew poetry 1998 Uri Zvi Greenberg Award =

Biography

Haim Gurfinkel (later Gouri) was born in Tel Aviv.[1] After studying at the Kadoorie Agricultural High School, he joined the Palmach and completed a commander's course.[2] He participated in the bombing of a British radar station being used to track Aliyah Bet ships carrying illegal Jewish immigrants to Palestine. In 1947 he was sent to Hungary to bring Holocaust survivors to Mandate Palestine. During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War he was a deputy company commander in the Palmach's Negev Brigade.[3]

Gouri studied literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Sorbonne in Paris. As a journalist he worked for LaMerhav and later, Davar. He achieved fame with his coverage of the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann.[3]

Family

Gouri lived with his wife, Aliza, in Jerusalem.[4] Gouri died on 31 January 2018, at the age of 94.^{[citation needed]}

Literary career

Gouri's first published poem, Day Voyage, appeared in Mishmar, edited by Abraham Shlonsky, in 1945. His first complete volume of poetry, Flowers of Fire, was published in 1949 following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

Awards and recognition

• In 1961, Gouri obtained the Sokolow Award for Israeli Journalism.[5]
• The film The 81st Blow, which he wrote, co-produced, and co-directed, was nominated for the 1974 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. It is part of a powerful Holocaust trilogy that includes The Last Sea and Flames in the Ashes.[6]
• In 1975, Gouri was awarded the Bialik Prize for literature.[7]
• In 1988, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for Hebrew poetry.[8]
• In 1998, he won the Uri Zvi Grinberg award.[4]
• In 2004, he was awarded the Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works.
• In 2016, Gouri rejected an award from the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport of the annual 50,000 shekel prize for “Zionist works of art”.[9]

Published works

Poetry

• Flowers of Fire, Years of Fire (1949)
• Poems of the Seal (1954)
• Compass Rose (1960)
• Movement to Touch (1968)
• Gehazi Visions (1974)
• The Eagle Line (1975)
• Words in My Love-Sick Blood (selected poems in English translation). Detroit: Wayne State University, 1996, ISBN 0-8143-2594-7.
• The Poems, in two volumes (1998)

Fiction

• The Chocolate Deal (1965). English translations: New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968, ISBN 1-125-15196-X. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8143-2800-8.
• The Crazy Book (1971)
• The Interrogation, The Story of Reuel (1980)

Non-fiction

• Facing the Glass Booth: the Jerusalem Trial of Adolf Eichmann (1962). English translation: Detroit: Wayne State University, 2004, ISBN 0-8143-3087-8.
• Pages of Jerusalem, notes (1968)

Documentary films

• The 81st Blow (Ha-Makah Hashmonim V'Echad, 1974), distributed with English subtitles by "American Federation of Jewish Fighters, Camp Inmates and Nazi Victims"
• The Last Sea (Ha-Yam Ha'Aharon, 1980)
• Flames in the Ashes (Pnei Hamered, 1985)

See also

• Hareut
• Hebrew literature
• Sokolov Award
• List of Israel Prize recipients
• List of Bialik Prize recipients

References

External links

• "Haim Gouri" (capsule biography and bibliography) at the Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature.
• Haim Gouri at IMDb 
• " Hebrew article about the poet in later life, retrieved from ynet 28 November 2012.

На других языках

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- [en] Haim Gouri

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[fr] Haim Gouri

Haim Gouri (en hébreu חיים גורי), né le 9 octobre 1923 à Tel Aviv (Palestine mandataire) et mort le 31 janvier 2018[1] à Jérusalem (Israël), est un poète, journaliste, traducteur et réalisateur israélien.

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[ru] Гури, Хаим

Хаим Гури (ивр. ‏חיים גורי‏‎, 9 октября 1923  — 31 января 2018) — израильский прозаик и поэт, переводчик, журналист, кинорежиссёр. Принадлежал к поколению «Пальмаха». Лауреат Премии имени Соколова 1961 года, Литературной премии имени Бялика 1975 года и Государственной премии Израиля в области поэзии 1988 года.

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