Books by Hanoch Levin

Plays Two is the second volume of brand-new English translations of selected volumes of Hanoch Levin, one of Israel's leading dramatists, aiming to bring one of the most important playwrights of the Middle East to English speaking audiences.

Plays One is the first volume of brand-new English translations of selected volumes of Hanoch Levin, one of Israel's leading dramatists, aiming to bring one of the most important playwrights of the Middle East to English speaking audiences.

'Hanoch Levin is the modern world on the stage... we badly need to hear what he has to say.' David LanHanoch Levin was one of Israel's leading dramatists. Born in Tel Aviv in 1943, his work includes comedies, tragedies, and satirical cabarets, most of which he directed himself. He received numerous theatre awards both in Israel and abroad and his plays have been staged around the world. Levin was awarded the Bialik Prize in 1994. Published in brand-new English translations, these selected volumes of Hanoch Levin, one of Israel's leading dramatists, aim to bring one of the most important playwrights of the Middle East to English speaking audiences.Plays Three contains the plays The Thin Soldier, Bachelors and Bachelorettes (2002), Everyone Wants to Live, The Constant Mourner (2019) and The Lamenters (2000).

Hanoch Levin's poetry stands alone as a single volume in his collected works, which run to fifteen volumes of drama and prose. Levin's poetic voice - mordant, witty, irreverent, erotic and highly satirical, yet also whimsical and delicate - is arresting, distinctive and unusual.

This is a selection of plays by the Israeli playwright and director Hanoch Levin. Levin's artistic credo was based on a constant urge to criticize Israeli society and its mainstream ideology while simultaneously confronting the basic human and existential issues of life and death.