Posted on 03/12/2004 8:44:25 PM PST by nuconvert
Natan Yonatan - Obituary
JERUSALEM (AP) - Natan Yonatan, an Israeli poet who won several Israeli literary awards with works that wove together themes of nature and war, died Friday near Tel Aviv. He was 81.
Yonatan won the Newman Prize for Hebrew Literature in 2001. His 20 books of poetry have been translated into several languages, including English, Russian and Spanish.
In one of his best-known poems, "That Man," Yonatan eulogized Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated by an ultranationalist Jew in 1995.
Yonatan was born in 1923 in Kiev, Ukraine, and immigrated to Israel at age two with his parents. After receiving a graduate degree in Hebrew and general literature from Tel Aviv University, he served for 27 years as the chief editor of the Sifriyat Poalim publishing house.
Recently, he appeared in the documentary "Living in Conflict: Voices from Israel and Palestine" in which he spoke about the loss of his son in the 1973 Middle East war.
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