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Sivan Beskin

Sivan Beskin is an Israeli poet, translator and literary editor who has published several books of Hebrew poetry and a memoir.

born 1976Hebrew poetry in rhyme and meterTranslating Russian literature into HebrewEditing the journal Ho!

Born: 31 August 1976, Vilnius
Occupation: poet, translator, writer
Education: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Sivan Beskin was born in 1976 in Vilnius

Sivan Beskin was born in 1976 in Vilnius, in Soviet Lithuania, to a Lithuanian Jewish family. She attended a Russian-language school there. In 1990 she immigrated to Israel with her family and settled in kibbutz Ein Carmel, later moving to Haifa.

In high school she majored in plastic arts. After her army service she earned a bachelor's degree in economics at the Technion in Haifa.

She began publishing Hebrew poetry online in the early 2000s and later in the journals Helicon and Ho!, joining the editorial board of Ho! in 2006. Her first poetry book appeared in 2006, followed by books in 2011, 2017 and 2024, and a memoir in 2021. She translates into Hebrew from Russian, English, Lithuanian and Yiddish, including works by Joseph Brodsky and Sergei Dovlatov.

She chairs the Ho! association and edits at its publishing house. Since 2002 she has lived in Tel Aviv, working as an information systems analyst. She is a mother of 2.