Dory Manor

Dory Manor was born in 1971 in Tel Aviv

Dory Manor was born in Tel Aviv on September 11, 1971. He began writing poetry at a young age and became interested in French language and literature in high school.

During his army service he worked as an editor and producer at Army Radio. At that time he published his first Hebrew translations of poems by Baudelaire in the literary supplement of Haaretz. Later he founded the poetry journal Ev with friends.

In 1995 he moved to Paris to study literature. He taught Hebrew literature and translation at INALCO, where he completed a doctorate in 2017 on Baudelaire in Hebrew. After returning to Israel in 2006, he taught at Ben-Gurion University and Tel Aviv University.

His first poetry book, Minority, appeared in 2000 and started a debate with poet Natan Zach over meter and rhyme. He later published Baritone in 2005, The Center of the Flesh in 2012 and One Soul Away in 2019. He translated many French poets, including Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Hugo.

Manor moved to Berlin in 2019. He co-founded Altneuland Press, a Hebrew publishing house outside Israel, and published a memoir in 2022 and a novel in 2025.