Ronny Someck

Ronny Someck (Hebrew: רוני סומק‎‎; born 1951) is an Israeli poet and author, whose works have been translated into many languages.

Someck was born in Baghdad and came to Israel as a young child. He studied Hebrew literature and philosophy at Tel Aviv University and drawing at the Avni Academy of Art. He has worked with street gangs, and currently teaches literature and leads creative writing workshops.

Someck has published 11 volumes of poetry (The last called Horse Power). He authored 2 children's book together with his daughter Shirly ( The Laughter Button and " Monkey Tough, Monkey Bluff"), that has been translated into 41 languages. Selections of his poems have appeared in Arabic translation, French (with the exile Iraqi poet- A.K. El-Janabi), Catalan, Albanian, Italian, Macedonian, Croatian, Yiddish, Nepali, Dutch, Danish, Spanish, Portuguese and English.

He is the recipient of the Prime Minister's Award, Yehuda Amichai Award for Hebrew poetry, The "Wine poem award" in Struga Poetry Evenings, Macedonia, 2005 and Hans Berghhuis prize for poetry 2006 at the Maastricht International Poetry Nights, the Netherlands.

He has recorded three discs with the musician Elliott Sharp: Revenge of the Stuttering Child, Poverty Line, and A Short History of Vodka.

In 1998 he mounted an exhibition “Nature’s Factory, winter 2046” with Beny Efrat at the Israel Museum.

He is a member of the Public Council of the Batsheva Dance Company and the Hebrew-Arabic Theatre.

In 2012 he was awarded the Cross of The Order of The Knights for a Distinguished Service of Poland.

In 2013 he was awarded the knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France.

In 2016 he was awarded the exemplary man of the "Lions International".

In 2017 he received a college prestige of the Arab Academic College for Education in Israel in Haifa.

For children:

In Albanian

In Arabic:

In Catalan:

In Croatian

In English:

• "The milk underground" (White Pine Press - Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation 2015 USA)

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