Dahlia Ravikovitch

Dahlia Ravikovitch was born in 1936, to an engineer who had come from China and a schoolteacher. Her father died in an accident when she was six; she followed her mother to kibbutz Geva, did not settle there, and at thirteen left for foster families in Haifa, where she wrote her first poems. She studied at the Hebrew University, taught in a secondary school, worked as a journalist and translated Yeats, Eliot and Poe. She received the Israel Prize for poetry in 1998 and died in Tel Aviv in 2005.

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• Poetryאהבת תפוח הזהבDahlia Ravikovitch · 1959not translated into EnglishLiterature