Poet Erez Biton Tapped for Israel Prize
March 29, 2015Poet Erez Bitton has been named as this year’s recipient of the Israel Prize for Literature.
He told Army Radio after the announcement: “At first I couldn’t believe it. I am excited, I am completely moved.”
Born 1942 in Oran, Algeria, Bitton immigrated to Israel in 1948. At the age of 10, he was blinded by a stray hand grenade that he found. He spent the rest of his childhood in Jerusalem’s Institute for the Blind. He earned a degree in social work from Hebrew University and worked as a social worker.
Later in life, he studied psychology at Bar-Ilan University.
Bitton also published a weekly column in the Israeli newspaper Maariv.
His has published five poetry books: “Mincha Marokait” (Moroccan Gift), 1976; “Sefer Hana’na” (Book of Mint), 1979; “Tzipor Bein Yabashot” (Bird Between Continents), 1990; “Timbisert, a Morrocan Bird,” 2009, and “Nofim Havushey Eynayim” (Blindfolded Landscapes).
He is married to Rachel Calahorra Bitton and they have two children.
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