Atar HadariAtar Hadari was born in Israel, raised in England, and lives in Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire. He studied acting and writing at the University of East Anglia before winning a scholarship to study poetry and playwriting with Derek Walcott at Boston Universty. His plays have won awards from the BBC, ACE, National Foundation of Jewish Culture (New York), European Association of Jewish Culture (Brussels) and the RSC, where he was Young Writer in Residence. Plays have been staged at the Finborough Theatre, Wimbledon Studio Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum (where he was a Mentor Playwright), Nat Horne Studio Theatre (New York) and Valdez, Alaska. As a translator, he was a finalist for the American Literary Translators’ Association Award with 'Songs from Bialik: Selected Poems of H. N. Bialik' (Syracuse University Press). His own poems have won various awards and prizes. Read More Read Less