Elisha Porat - About
The Author
Elisha Porat was
born in 1938 to a "pioneer" family in Palestine-Eretz Yisrael (pre
Israel); his parents were among the founders of kibbutz Ein
Hahoresh, a kibbutz on the Sharon plain, near the city of
Hadera. Today Porat, devoted to the community ideal, still
makes his home near the original tent erected by his parents back in
the early 30s.
In 1956 he was
drafted into the IDF (the Israeli army) and fought in three wars: the Six
Day War in 1967, the Yom Kippur War in 1973, and the War
of South Lebanon in 1982.
Porat has
worked many years as a farmer as well as a writer. His labors in the kibbutz
fruit orchard, perhaps contrasting his military tours of duty, have
always influenced his art.
Besides
writing, his current endeavors include editorial duties for several
literary journals. He is married with four grown children -- three
daughters and a son. In 1998, Porat journeyed out into the internet,
and his growing volume of work can be readily found in many literary
Ezines. His translated stories and poems have for years found their way
into print, most recently The Boston Review.
He was the
1996 winner of Israel's Prime
Minister's Prize for Literature has published 17
volumes of fiction and poetry, in Hebrew, since 1973.
His works
have appeared in translation in Israel, the United States, Canada and
England. The English translation of his short story collection " The
Messiah of LaGuardia ", was released in 1997. His latest work, a
book of Hebpoetry, "The Dinosaurs of the
Language", was recently published in Israel. |
J PORAT ART LINK
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Book Reviews I
Book Review II
Book Review III
Book Review IV
Book Review V
Books Published 
New Book *Payback
Payback Book Reviews
After the
First Rain :
Israeli Poems on War
and Peace
New Book
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