Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Poetic Obituaries: In 1949 he [Avigdor Dagan] immigrated

to Israel and settled into a career at the Foreign Ministry, where he served as an envoy to Japan, Burma and Yugoslavia, and was Israel’s Ambassador to Poland, Norway and Austria. He began his literary career already in his youth in Prague, where he published a number of poetry anthologies, including "Hebrew Melodies," which earned him an important literary award in Czechoslovakia and was later translated to Hebrew.

from Yedioth Internet: Writer Avigdor Dagan passes away

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