Tuvia Ruebner wins Konrad Adenauer Literature Prize

May 31, 2012 The Slovakian-born writer, who as a teenager in 1941 immigrated to Palestine to escape the Nazis,“builds bridges across languages, cultures and literatures“and his work “advocates for life, human rights, freedom and peace,” according to the Adenauer Stiftung that sponsors the €15,000 prize. The Israel Prize laureate’s lyrical work is widely known in Hebrew and German, and appears in English translation on Poetry International.
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