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Efrat Mishori

Efrat Mishori is an Israeli poet, essayist, performance artist and filmmaker who received the Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works in 2002.

born 1964Hebrew poetry collectionsEarly spoken word performance in IsraelThe film Death of a Poetess

Born: 5 May 1964, Tiberias
Occupation: writer, poet, filmmaker, film producer
Education: Tel Aviv University

Efrat Mishori was born in 1964 in Tiberias

Efrat Mishori was born in Tiberias in 1964 as Efrat Tsdaka. Her father, Yitzhak Tsdaka, was a linguist, and her mother, Rina Tsdaka, was a teacher and researcher of medieval poetry. She married the artist Yakov Mishori in 1989, and they have a son.

She studied at Tel Aviv University and earned a PhD in literature in 2006. Her dissertation joined psychoanalysis and literature and looked at places in poetry. It won the Dov Sadan award.

In the 1990s she wrote essays and criticism on poetry and art. Her first book was a children's book in 1988, and her first poetry collection came out in 1994 and won the Ron Adler Foundation award. In 1996 she staged a one-woman show of spoken word based on her poems.

She taught writing and performance and led workshops at universities. In 2011 she started the literary salon Theater of the Traveling Text. In 2014 she founded the film company Gypsycam with Dana Goldberg, and in 2018 they released the feature film Death of a Poetess.

She won the Haaretz short story award in 2004 and the Landau Award in 2018. She lives in Tel Aviv.