Aharon Shabtai

Aharon Shabtai was born in Tel Aviv in 1939. He is the author of Requiem & Other Poems (New Directions, 2025); War & Love, Love & War: New and Selected Poems (New Directions, 2010); and J’Accuse (New Directions, 2003). All three collections were translated from the Hebrew by Peter Cole.

Shabtai is also the primary translator of classical Greek literature into Hebrew.