The Immigrant's Lament was first published in hebrew in 1994.
Benarroch's poetry has been published in a dozen languages, including
Urdu and Chinese. Julia Uceda considers that Benarroch holds the memory
of the world in his poetry, while Jose Luis Garcia Martin thinks that
his poems are more than poetry, they are a document. "If I had a
nomination vote for the nobel prize he'd be in the running." Klaus
Gerken, Ygdrasil editor. His reputation has been steadily growing and
his books have been published in Spain, Israel and the U.S.A. Benarroch
was awarded the prime minister literary prize in 2008 and the Yehuda
Amichai poetry prize in 2012.
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