Dory Manor

Dory Manor is an Israeli poet, translator, literary editor, essayist, and educator, writing in Hebrew. His work has garnered several prizes and honors, including the Tchernichovski Prize for Translation (2008) and the French Chevalier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2018). As of 2020, Manor published five books of poetry, dozens of literary translations – especially from French – and is the founding editor of the Hebrew literary journal Ho!. He also edits books of poetry by other Hebrew poets. In addition to his poetic and translation work, Manor has published the memoir Sharav Rishon (2022), the essay collection The Blessing of Babel (2024), and the novel Hof HaDatim. He is also the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Altneuland Press, the first Hebrew-language publishing house established outside Israel since the 1940s. Manor lived for a decade in Paris before relocating to Berlin in 2019, where he has been based since.