Simon Halkin (Hebrew: שמעון הלקין) was a Jewish poet, novelist, teacher, and translator.
[2] He worked as an English teacher in Tel Aviv from 1932 to 1939, but then returned to America, to become professor of Hebrew Literature at the Jewish Institute of Religion in New York.
He made his final move to Israel in 1949, when he succeeded Joseph Klausner as Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature and became head of the department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He translated William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and other writers from English into Hebrew.
He wrote six poetry collections, two novels, several short stories, and also literary criticism.