Agi Mishol

Agi Mishol was born in 1946 in Cehu Silvaniei

Agi Mishol was born Agnes Fried in Cehu Silvaniei, Transylvania, Romania, to Hungarian-speaking Jewish parents who survived the Holocaust. She came to Israel at age 4, and the family settled in Gedera, where her parents ran a repair shop. She started writing poetry young.

While serving in the IDF at the nuclear facility in Dimona, she began studying literature at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. She later moved to Jerusalem and earned BA and MA degrees in Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University, where she took a writing workshop with Yehuda Amichai.

She taught Hebrew literature at Be'er Tuvia high school from 1976 to 2001 and lectured at Alma College in Tel Aviv from 2002 to 2008. Her collection "Yoman Mata" appeared in 1986, and her poems were set to music by artists such as Corinne Allal and Yehudit Ravitz. She managed the Helicon School of Poetry from 2011 to 2014.

She lives in Kfar Mordechai with her husband Giora, and they have two children, Maya and Uri. In 2018 her personal archive was moved to the National Library of Israel.