HAMUTAL BAR-YOSEF has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the The Jerusalem Prize for Poetry (1997), The President of Israel Prize for Poetry (2002) and the Brenner Prize (2005). Her poems have been translated into English, French, German, Russian, Ukrainian, Arabic and Yiddish. She has been a visiting professor in Paris, Moscow and at Columbia University in New York. She lives in Jerusalem.
A reasonably discerning reader of Hamutal Bar-Yosef in translation will find that although her poems are written about her life, which has been tragic and sometimes glorious, Israel, the Jews and their culture, life and the world—all very big subjects—her writing is such that if she were writing about a soap bubble she would be immediately recognizable as a great poet.”
