Mois Benarroch

by George J. Dance Mois Benarroch (born 1959) is an Israeli poet who writes in Englsh, Spanish.

Life
Benarroch was born in Tetuan, Spanish Morocco, in 1959, and came to Israel with his parents in 1972, when he was 13. He worked as an accountant for 12 years, and as a naturopath and in the hotel industry. He now devotes himself to writing.

Recognition
Benarroch won the Israel Prime Minister’s Prize for Literature in 2009.

Poetry

 * You Walk on the Land Until One Day the Land Walks on You. Xlibris, 2000.
 * Horses and Other Doubts. Iuniverse, 2000.
 * Take me to the Sea. Iuniverse, 2001.
 * The Immigrant’s Lament. WPC Press, 2002.
 * Bilingual Poems Hebrew and English. Jerusalem: Moben, 2005.

Poetry

 * The Immigrant’s Lament. Tel Aviv: Yaron Golan, 1994.
 * The Poetry of the End of the World. Tel Aviv: Yaron Golan, 1999.
 * The Bread and the Dream. Tel Aviv: Yaron Golan, 2000.
 * The Weight of the Ink. Tel Aviv: Yaron Golan, 2001.

Prose

 * The Next Book. Tel Aviv: Yaron Golan, 1997.
 * Keys to Tetuan. Tel Aviv: Bimat Kedem Lesifrut, 2000.
 * The Little Man Who Eats Seeds. Tel Aviv: Yaron Golan, 2000.
 * A Parisian Month. Tel Aviv: Astrolog, 2002.
 * Lucena. Tel Aviv: Astrolog, 2002.

Spanish

 * Esquina En Tetuan (poetry). Coleccion Esquio, 2000.
 * Amor Y Exilios (novel). Ediciones Escalera, 2010.

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy Poetry International.