Mois Benarroch

Mois Benarroch (Hebrew: מואיז בן הראש; born 12 October 1959) is a Moroccan-Israeli poet and translator.

Born in Tétouan, he moved to Tel Aviv, Israel in September 1972 at the age of thirteen with his family.

[1] Raised speaking Spanish in Morocco, he began writing poetry in English.

He began translating his poetry from English to Hebrew before beginning to write poetry in Hebrew directly.

[2] Benarroch has published over 25 novels and was awarded the Jacqueline Kahanoff Prize for fiction and the Yehuda Amichai Poetry Prize in 2012.