Maya Bejerano

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''' Maya Bejerano''' ({{langx|he|מאיה בז'רנו}}; born 1949 Kibbutz Eilon) is an Israeli poet.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=45 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-06-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110804221922/http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=45 |archivedate=2011-08-04 }}</ref>

She graduated from Bar-Ilan University with a B.A. in Literature and Philosophy, and from Hebrew University with an M.A. in Library Sciences.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.boaeditions.org/authors/bejerano/ |title=Maya Bejerano - Authors - BOA Editions |accessdate=2011-06-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614055141/http://www.boaeditions.org/authors/bejerano/ |archivedate=2011-06-14 }}</ref> She won a 2010 ACUM literary award,<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/acum-awards-literary-prizes-to-ruth-almog-maya-bejerano-avirama-golan-and-haim-be-er-1.336115| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110112044315/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/acum-awards-literary-prizes-to-ruth-almog-maya-bejerano-avirama-golan-and-haim-be-er-1.336115| url-status=dead| archive-date=January 12, 2011| title=ACUM awards literary prizes to Ruth Almog, Maya Bejerano, Avirama Golan and Haim Be'er | author= Maya Sela| work=Haaretz| date= 2011-01-10}}</ref> and is a three-time recipient of the Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works (1986, 1994, 1996). In 2002 she was awarded the Bialik Prize.

==Works== *''Bat Ya`ana (Ostrich)'', Achshav, 1978 *''Ha-Hom Ve-Ha-Kor (The Heat and the Cold)'', Alef, 1981 *''Ibud Netunim 52 (Data Processing 52)'', Alef, 1983 *''Shirat ha-Tziporim (The Song of the Birds)'', Achshav, 1985 *''Kol (Voice),'' Siman Kriah/Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1987 *''Retzef Ha-Shirim 1972-1986 (Selected Poems)'', Am Oved, 1987 *''Leviatan (Whale)'', Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1990 *''Ha-Simla Ha-Kehula Ve-Sochen Ha-Bituach, (The Blue Dress and the Insurance Agent)'', stories & play, Keter, 1992 *''Mizmorei Iyov (The Hymns of Job)'', Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1993 *''Ha-Perah Ha-Sakran (The Curious Flower)'' children, Yaron Golan, 1993 *''Anaseh Laga`at Be-Tabur Bitni (Trying to Touch My Belly Button)'', Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1998 *''Tedarim (Frequencies)'', Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2005 *''Madrich Taiarim Ba-Ir Zara (A Tour Guide in a Foreign City)'' stories, Carmel, 2007 *''Hitorarti be- Merkazu sel Ha- Alachsun (Waking at the Heart of the Diagonal)'', Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2009

===Books in English=== *''The Hymns of Job and Other Poems'', Translator Tsipi Keller, Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, 2008, {{ISBN|978-1-934414-16-3}}

===Anthologies=== *{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y1DEOvpKEHAC&dq=Maya+Bejerano&pg=PA244| title= Poets on the edge: an anthology of contemporary Hebrew poetry| editor= Tsipi Keller |publisher= SUNY Press|year= 2008| isbn= 978-0-7914-7686-4 }} *{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=18aELiu7kjsC&dq=Maya+Bejerano&pg=PA284| title=Dreaming the actual: contemporary fiction and poetry by Israeli women writers| editor= Miriyam Glazer | publisher= SUNY Press| year= 2000| isbn= 978-0-7914-4558-7 }}

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