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'''Efrat Mishori''' (in [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: '''אפרת מישורי'''; born May 5, 1964) is an [[Israel|Israeli]] [[poet]], [[List of essayists|essayist]], [[Performance art|performance artist]], and [[Filmmaking|filmmaker]]. She is the recipient of the Prime Minister's Award (2002) and the Landau Award (2018).
'''Efrat Mishori''' (''née'' '''Tsdaka''', in [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: '''אפרת מישורי'''; born 5 May 1964) is an Israeli poet, [[List of essayists|essayist]], [[performance art]]ist, and filmmaker. She is the recipient of the [[Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works|Prime Minister's Award]] (2002) and the Landau Award (2018).


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
Mishori (nee Tsdaka) was born in [[Tiberias]]. In the 1990s, she worked as an art and literature critic and essayist. She completed her PhD in literature at [[Tel Aviv University]] in 2006, with a dissertation entitled "Tel Aviv - Reality or Invention", which combined [[psychoanalysis]] and literature, and dealt with representation of places as transition objects for the poet; her work won her the Dov Sadan excellence award.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://library.osu.edu/projects/hebrew-lexicon/01097.php|title=אפרת מישורי (1964)|last=|first=|date=|website=לקסיקון הספרות העברית החדשה|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=March 20, 2019}}</ref>
Mishori (nee Tsdaka) was born in [[Tiberias]]. During the 1990s, she worked as an art and literature critic and essayist. She completed her PhD in literature at [[Tel Aviv University]] in 2006, with a dissertation entitled "Tel Aviv – Reality or Invention", which combined [[psychoanalysis]] and literature, and dealt with representation of places as transition objects for the poet; her work won her the Dov Sadan excellence award.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://library.osu.edu/projects/hebrew-lexicon/01097.php|title=אפרת מישורי (1964)|website=לקסיקון הספרות העברית החדשה|access-date=March 20, 2019}}</ref>

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In 1989 she married Israeli artist Yakov Mishori, whom she divorced in 2014. The two have one son. Mishori lives in [[Tel Aviv]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.yediot.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4745883,00.html|title=שיר אחר מלחמה|last=גבי בר־חיים|first=|date=December 30, 2015|work=[[Yedioth Aharonoth]]|access-date=March 20, 2019}}</ref>


== Writing ==
== Writing ==
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Mishori's first published work was a children's book, ''The Book of Dreams'', which came out in 1988. Mishori wrote and illustrated the book. Her first collection of poetry, ''Poems 1990–1994'', was self-published in 1994, won the Ron Adler Foundation award for first-time authors,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://efratmishori.com/about/|title=אפרת מישורי – אודות|website=EfratMishori.com|access-date=March 20, 2019}}</ref> and was defined by critic [[Menahem Ben]] as "one of the most important poetic achievements we've seen in recent years".<ref>{{Cite news|title=מילה דחופה אחת|last=מנחם בן|year=1994|work=[[Haaretz]]}}</ref>


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Since then, Mishori has published six additional poetry collections.<ref name=":0" /> She has won the Hebrew Authors Creativity Award (Prime Minister's Award) in 2002, the [[Haaretz]] short story award in 2004, and in 2017, she won the Shlomo Tanai award for her book ''Married Woman and Single Poems''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://acum.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/%D7%93%D7%95%D7%97-%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%AA%D7%99-%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%90-%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A6%D7%A8%D7%AA-%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%93%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%AA-%D7%9C%D7%97%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9D-29.1.18.pdf|title=דוח 2016|website=אקו"ם|access-date=March 20, 2019}}</ref> Her poems and stories have been published in daily papers, magazines, and literary journals.
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Mishori's first published work was a children's book, ''The Book of Dreams'', which came out in 1988. Mishori wrote and illustrated the book. Her first collection of poetry, ''Poems 1990-1994'', was self-published in 1994, won the Ron Adler Foundation award for first-time authors,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://efratmishori.com/about/|title=אפרת מישורי - אודות|last=|first=|date=|website=EfratMishori.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=March 20, 2019}}</ref> and was defined by critic [[Menahem Ben]] as "one of the most important poetic achievements we've seen in recent years".<ref>{{Cite news|url=|title=מילה דחופה אחת|last=מנחם בן|first=|date=1994|work=[[Ha'aretz]]|access-date=}}</ref>

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Since then, Mishori has published six additional poetry collections.<ref name=":0" /> She has won the Hebrew Authors Creativity Award (Prime Minister's Award) in 2002, the [[Haaretz]] short story award in 2004, and in 2017, she won the Shlomo Tanai award for her book ''Married Woman and Single Poems''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://acum.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/%D7%93%D7%95%D7%97-%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%AA%D7%99-%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%90-%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A6%D7%A8%D7%AA-%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%93%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%AA-%D7%9C%D7%97%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9D-29.1.18.pdf|title=דוח 2016|last=|first=|date=|website=אקו"ם|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=March 20, 2019}}</ref> Her poems and stories have been published in daily papers, magazines, and literary journals.


== Other activities ==
== Other activities ==
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[[File:Efrat Mishori taken by Dana Goldberg.jpeg|alt=Efrat Mishori on a motorbike|thumb|300x300px]]


In 1996, Mishori produced and performed the one-woman show "I Am Poetry's Model", based on her poems, and an early staging of [[Spoken word|spoken word]] performing in Israel. The show was accompanied by [[Video art|video art]] and [[Dance|movement]], and was described in the press as "groundbreaking" and "pioneering".<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-5148990,00.html|title=אפרת מישורי על ההשראה לסרטה "מות המשוררת"|last=גיא שרמן|first=|date=March 8, 2018|work=[[ynet]]|access-date=March 20, 2019}}</ref>
In 1996, Mishori produced and performed the one-woman show "I Am Poetry's Model", based on her poems, and an early staging of [[spoken word]] performing in Israel. The show was accompanied by [[Video art]] and [[Dance|movement]], and was described in the press as "groundbreaking" and "pioneering".<ref name=ynet>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-5148990,00.html|title=אפרת מישורי על ההשראה לסרטה "מות המשוררת"|last=גיא שרמן|date=March 8, 2018|work=[[ynet]]|language=Hebrew|trans-title=Efrat Mishori on the inspiration for the film "Death of a Poetess"|access-date=March 20, 2019}}</ref>
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[[File:Efrat Mishori taken by Dana Goldberg.jpeg|alt=Efrat Mishori on a motorbike|thumb|300x300px|Photo by Dana Goldberg]]
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Mishori taught writing and performance at the School of Visual Arts in [[Jerusalem]], led workshops at universities, and was Visiting Author for the [[Ministry of Education (Israel)|Ministry of Education]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/Mazkirut_Pedagogit/Sifrut/Sofer201011/YotzrimAvar/EfratMishori.htm|title=אפרת מישורי|last=|first=|date=|website=Israel Ministry of Education|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=March 20, 2019}}</ref> She also edits poetry collections,<ref name=":0" /> and is an editorial board member for the literature journal NanoPoetica. In 2011, Mishori started the literary salon "Theater of the Traveling Text", through which she leads workshops and meetings with women poets, authors and lecturers. She is considered a leader of the "neo-avant-garde" poetry movement in Israel.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.co.il/literature/poetry/.premium-REVIEW-1.6871057|title="אשה נשואה ושירים בודדים": כל המנעד של שירת אפרת מישורי בספר אחד|last=יהודה ויזן|first=|date=January 25, 2019|work=[[Ha'aretz]]|access-date=March 20, 2019}}</ref>


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Mishori taught writing and performance at the School of Visual Arts in [[Jerusalem]], led workshops at universities, and was Visiting Author for the [[Ministry of Education (Israel)|Ministry of Education]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/Mazkirut_Pedagogit/Sifrut/Sofer201011/YotzrimAvar/EfratMishori.htm|title=אפרת מישורי|website=Israel Ministry of Education|access-date=March 20, 2019}}</ref> She also edits poetry collections,<ref name=":0" /> and is an editorial board member for the literature journal NanoPoetica. In 2011, Mishori started the literary salon "Theater of the Traveling Text", through which she leads workshops and meetings with women poets, authors and lecturers. She is considered a leader of the "neo-avant-garde" poetry movement in Israel.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.co.il/literature/poetry/.premium-REVIEW-1.6871057|title="אשה נשואה ושירים בודדים": כל המנעד של שירת אפרת מישורי בספר אחד|last=יהודה ויזן|date=January 25, 2019|work=[[Haaretz]]|access-date=March 20, 2019}}</ref>
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Together with the literature and culture magazine ''[[Iton 77]]'', Mishori founded "Low Flame 77", a publishing house dedicated to women's poetry, and defined by Mishori as "a laboratory for developing women's poetry". Two books have been published to date, by the poets Tal Cohen Bechor and Revital Mitki.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://efratmishori.com/|title=אש קטנה 77 – מעבדה חדשה לכתיבה ולהוצאת ספרי שירה בעריכת אפרת מישורי|last=|first=|date=|website=EfratMishori.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=March 20, 2019}}</ref>


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Together with the literature and culture magazine ''[[Iton 77]]'', Mishori founded "Low Flame 77", a publishing house dedicated to women's poetry, and defined by Mishori as "a laboratory for developing women's poetry". Two books have been published to date, by the poets Tal Cohen Bechor and Revital Mitki.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://efratmishori.com/|title=אש קטנה 77 – מעבדה חדשה לכתיבה ולהוצאת ספרי שירה בעריכת אפרת מישורי|website=EfratMishori.com|access-date=March 20, 2019}}</ref>
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In 2014, Mishori founded a [[Filmmaking|film production]] company with Dana Goldberg, Gypsycam, for [[Experimental film|experimental]] and [[Independent film|independent cinema]]. The company has produced several [[Short film|short films]] by Goldberg and Mishori. The pair used to be a couple, but have since separated. In 2018, Mishori and Goldberg released the feature film ''[[Death of a Poetess]]'', starring [[Evgenia Dodina]] and [[Samira Saraya]].<ref name=":1" />

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In 2014, Mishori founded a [[Filmmaking|film production]] company with filmmaker [[Dana Goldberg]], Gypsycam, for [[Experimental film|experimental]] and [[Independent film|independent cinema]]. They produced several [[short film]]s together. In 2018, they released the feature film ''[[Death of a Poetess]]'', starring [[Evgenia Dodina]] and [[Samira Saraya]].<ref name=ynet />


In 2018, Mishori received the Landau Arts Award.
In 2018, Mishori received the Landau Arts Award.

==Personal life==
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In 1989 she married Israeli artist Yakov Mishori, whom she divorced in 2014. The two have one son.<ref name=Yedioth>{{Cite news|url=https://www.yediot.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4745883,00.html|title=שיר אחר מלחמה|last=גבי בר־חיים|date=December 30, 2015|work=[[Yedioth Aharonoth]]|access-date=March 20, 2019}}</ref>

Mishori and [[Dana Goldberg]] used to be a couple, but separated in 2017.<ref name=ynet /> Mishori lives in [[Tel Aviv]].<ref name=Yedioth />


== Select works ==
== Select works ==
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=== Poetry ===
=== Poetry ===
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* '''שירים 1990–1994''' ''Poems 1990–1994''

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* כרך א: '''יש לָנוּמָשוּ לָגִיד''' – שירים 1990–1992 ;כרך ב: '''הנפש האוקלידית''' – שירים 92–94
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* '''שירים 1990–1994''' ''Poems 1990-1994''
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* כרך א: '''יש לָנוּמָשוּ לָגִיד''' - שירים 1990–1992 ;כרך ב: '''הנפש האוקלידית''' – שירים 92–94
* '''נשיכות של דגים קטנים''' ''Bites of Little Fishes'', Even Hoshen, 1999
* '''נשיכות של דגים קטנים''' ''Bites of Little Fishes'', Even Hoshen, 1999
* '''הפה הפיזי''': שירים ''The Physical Here'', Kibbutz Meuchad Publishing, 2002
* '''הפה הפיזי''': שירים ''The Physical Here'', Kibbutz Meuchad Publishing, 2002
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* ''Thinkerbell'', Kibbutz Meuchad Publishing, 2015
* ''Thinkerbell'', Kibbutz Meuchad Publishing, 2015
* '''אשה נשואה ושירים בודדים,''' הוצאת הקיבוץ המאוחד, 2019 ''Married Woman and Single Poems'', Kibbutz Meuchad Publishing, 2019
* '''אשה נשואה ושירים בודדים,''' הוצאת הקיבוץ המאוחד, 2019 ''Married Woman and Single Poems'', Kibbutz Meuchad Publishing, 2019
* '''Избавительница от смерти и изготовители сэндвичей''' / '''No nāves glābējiņa un sendviču meistari''', Ozolnieki (Latvia), Literature without borders, 2022 (in Russian and Latvian translation)


=== Children's books ===
=== Children's books ===

* '''ספר החלומות''' (ירושלים: חורב, תשמ"ח 1988) ''Book of Dreams'', Horev, Jerusalem 1988 (as Efrat Tsdaka)
* '''ספר החלומות''' (ירושלים: חורב, תשמ"ח 1988) ''Book of Dreams'', Horev, Jerusalem 1988 (as Efrat Tsdaka)

==See also==
* [[List of female film and television directors]]
* [[List of LGBT-related films directed by women]]


== References ==
== References ==
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Latest revision as of 10:40, 10 March 2024

Efrat Mishori
אפרת מישורי
Mishori sitting at a table of a sidewalk café. She is wearing a blue button-up shirt, and is looking to the right of the camera.
Born
Tiberias
NationalityIsraeli
Occupation(s)Poet, writer, filmmaker

Efrat Mishori (née Tsdaka, in Hebrew: אפרת מישורי; born 5 May 1964) is an Israeli poet, essayist, performance artist, and filmmaker. She is the recipient of the Prime Minister's Award (2002) and the Landau Award (2018).

Biography

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Mishori (nee Tsdaka) was born in Tiberias. During the 1990s, she worked as an art and literature critic and essayist. She completed her PhD in literature at Tel Aviv University in 2006, with a dissertation entitled "Tel Aviv – Reality or Invention", which combined psychoanalysis and literature, and dealt with representation of places as transition objects for the poet; her work won her the Dov Sadan excellence award.[1]

Writing

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Mishori's first published work was a children's book, The Book of Dreams, which came out in 1988. Mishori wrote and illustrated the book. Her first collection of poetry, Poems 1990–1994, was self-published in 1994, won the Ron Adler Foundation award for first-time authors,[2] and was defined by critic Menahem Ben as "one of the most important poetic achievements we've seen in recent years".[3]

Since then, Mishori has published six additional poetry collections.[1] She has won the Hebrew Authors Creativity Award (Prime Minister's Award) in 2002, the Haaretz short story award in 2004, and in 2017, she won the Shlomo Tanai award for her book Married Woman and Single Poems.[4] Her poems and stories have been published in daily papers, magazines, and literary journals.

Other activities

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Efrat Mishori on a motorbike

In 1996, Mishori produced and performed the one-woman show "I Am Poetry's Model", based on her poems, and an early staging of spoken word performing in Israel. The show was accompanied by Video art and movement, and was described in the press as "groundbreaking" and "pioneering".[5]

Mishori taught writing and performance at the School of Visual Arts in Jerusalem, led workshops at universities, and was Visiting Author for the Ministry of Education.[6] She also edits poetry collections,[1] and is an editorial board member for the literature journal NanoPoetica. In 2011, Mishori started the literary salon "Theater of the Traveling Text", through which she leads workshops and meetings with women poets, authors and lecturers. She is considered a leader of the "neo-avant-garde" poetry movement in Israel.[7]

Together with the literature and culture magazine Iton 77, Mishori founded "Low Flame 77", a publishing house dedicated to women's poetry, and defined by Mishori as "a laboratory for developing women's poetry". Two books have been published to date, by the poets Tal Cohen Bechor and Revital Mitki.[8]

In 2014, Mishori founded a film production company with filmmaker Dana Goldberg, Gypsycam, for experimental and independent cinema. They produced several short films together. In 2018, they released the feature film Death of a Poetess, starring Evgenia Dodina and Samira Saraya.[5]

In 2018, Mishori received the Landau Arts Award.

Personal life

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In 1989 she married Israeli artist Yakov Mishori, whom she divorced in 2014. The two have one son.[9]

Mishori and Dana Goldberg used to be a couple, but separated in 2017.[5] Mishori lives in Tel Aviv.[9]

Select works

[edit]
Mishori, reading her poetry. She is standing before a mic, holding a book in both hands.
Mishori, reading her poetry

Poetry

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  • שירים 1990–1994 Poems 1990–1994
  • כרך א: יש לָנוּמָשוּ לָגִיד – שירים 1990–1992 ;כרך ב: הנפש האוקלידית – שירים 92–94
  • נשיכות של דגים קטנים Bites of Little Fishes, Even Hoshen, 1999
  • הפה הפיזי: שירים The Physical Here, Kibbutz Meuchad Publishing, 2002
  • הבוהמה הביתית, הוצאת הקיבוץ המאוחד, 79 עמ Home Boheme, Kibbutz Meuchad Publishing, 2013
  • Thinkerbell, Kibbutz Meuchad Publishing, 2015
  • אשה נשואה ושירים בודדים, הוצאת הקיבוץ המאוחד, 2019 Married Woman and Single Poems, Kibbutz Meuchad Publishing, 2019
  • Избавительница от смерти и изготовители сэндвичей / No nāves glābējiņa un sendviču meistari, Ozolnieki (Latvia), Literature without borders, 2022 (in Russian and Latvian translation)

Children's books

[edit]
  • ספר החלומות (ירושלים: חורב, תשמ"ח 1988) Book of Dreams, Horev, Jerusalem 1988 (as Efrat Tsdaka)

See also

[edit]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "אפרת מישורי (1964)". לקסיקון הספרות העברית החדשה. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  2. ^ "אפרת מישורי – אודות". EfratMishori.com. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  3. ^ מנחם בן (1994). "מילה דחופה אחת". Haaretz.
  4. ^ "דוח 2016" (PDF). אקו"ם. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  5. ^ a b c גיא שרמן (March 8, 2018). "אפרת מישורי על ההשראה לסרטה "מות המשוררת"" [Efrat Mishori on the inspiration for the film "Death of a Poetess"]. ynet (in Hebrew). Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  6. ^ "אפרת מישורי". Israel Ministry of Education. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  7. ^ יהודה ויזן (January 25, 2019). ""אשה נשואה ושירים בודדים": כל המנעד של שירת אפרת מישורי בספר אחד". Haaretz. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  8. ^ "אש קטנה 77 – מעבדה חדשה לכתיבה ולהוצאת ספרי שירה בעריכת אפרת מישורי". EfratMishori.com. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  9. ^ a b גבי בר־חיים (December 30, 2015). "שיר אחר מלחמה". Yedioth Aharonoth. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
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