Amir Or is a major voice in contemporary world literature and the 2020 Golden Wreath laureate. His poetry, recognized with awards including the 2019 Homer European Medal, the 2021 Vinicius and Wladislaw Reimont Prizes, and the 2022 Shabdagucha Award, has been translated into more than 50 languages and published in 46 books worldwide. He is the author of 14 poetry collections, two novels, essays, and 12 volumes of translations.

Thirst, Amir Or’s 14th book of poetry, speaks mostly through the mouths of female personas and explores various facets of the feminine. It is an existential parable that tells the story of the soul; after being cut off from its source, the object of its longing, it makes its way back to it in the garden of life’s forked paths. One by one, the characters in the poems reveal themselves as incarnations of the thirsty soul, seeking to reunite with its beloved, in countless ways of wandering and distance, longing, desire and devotion.